WASHINGTON, Oct 15: Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) major economies pledged on Wednesday to hold a global financial crisis summit “in the near future” with other key countries.

“We are confident that, working together, we will meet the present challenges and return our economies to stability and prosperity,” they said in the statement, released by the White House.

Leaders of the G8, which groups Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States, “are united in our commitment to fulfil our shared responsibility to resolve the current crisis,” they said.

The G8 also embraced the idea of an emergency international summit on the crisis.—AFP