RE: LRC Doesn't Even Qualify to Observe a G7 Summit?.

[ With all the resources [ Natural & Human ] available in the geographical triangle called LRC, the dictatorial regime of Pres. Paul Biya, of one score plus 15 years, has been unable to secure a place as a back bench observer in global gatherings. It's pathetic... ]

[US President Donald Trump (C) poses with Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta (L), Guinea's President Alpha Conde (2ndL), Vice President of Nigeria Yemi Osinbajo (2ndR) and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn after a family photo of the leaders of the G7 and the leaders of some African countries that have been invited for the two-day talks, on the second day of the G7 summit of Heads of State and of Government, on May 27, 2017 in Taormina, Sicily. / AFP PHOTO / Tiziana FABI (Photo credit should read TIZIANA FABI/AFP/Getty Images]

[The G7, which primarily discusses common economic problems, was originally the G6 and briefly the G8.

In 1975, the finance ministers and central bank governors of France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States were called together by French President Giscard d'Estaing for informal discussions. These were the countries with the leading economies in the world (accounting for roughly half the world's wealth and gross domestic product) and they all confronted the effects of oil price shocks. The group was expanded to include Canada in 1976, making it the G7.

In 1994, with the Cold War over, President Clinton invited Russia, becoming briefly G8; but after the invasion of Crimea, the group suspended Russia in 2014.]