Canada being the host and chair of the Group of 7 summit in Halifax in 1995, then Foreign MinisterAndre Ouellet made it a point to invite his ASEAN counterparts to Vancouver beforehand to hear their views on what Canada should raise at the summit. I represented the Philippines at that meeting. As far as I know, it was the only time that a Group of 7 or Group of 8 host has made such a gesture, although Japan, in the ASEAN+3 economic ministers' meeting in May 2000, offered to bring up ASEAN's interests and concerns at the Group of 8 summit in Okinawa that year.