G8, G5 and Egypt leaders applaud U.S. President Barack Obama as he joins the group for a family photo, at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, Thursday, July 9, 2009. Leaders of the exclusive club of eight industrialized nations open up their forum Thursday to the five fastest developing market economies, Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa, tacit admission that their leadership alone is not enough to fix the world's major problems. (AP Photo/Eric Feferberg, Pool)From AFP:
L'AQUILA, Italy (AFP) — US President Barack Obama will invite leaders from 25-30 countries to a March 2010 global summit on securing nuclear materials and battling atomic smuggling, the White House said Wednesday.
Obama is hosting the gathering because he "believes nuclear terrorism is the most immediate and extreme threat to global security," Mark Lippert, chief of staff of the US National Security Council, told reporters on a conference call.
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More News On Next Year's Nuclear Summit
Whom Should the White House Invite to Its 2010 Nuclear Non-proliferation Summit? -- ABC News
Obama Plans Nuclear Security Summit -- Global Security Newswire
My Comment: I am willing to wager that countries like Iran and North Korea will not be invited to this summit.
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