Chidambaram to attend G-7 meet

Finance Minister P Chidambaram will attend a meeting of finance ministers from leading industrialised nations in London on February 4.

"I have been invited by Chancellor Gordon Brown to London on February 4 to participate in a meeting of G-7 countries' finance ministers," Chidambaram said on the sidelines of a micro-finance institutions' conference today.

"I don't know whether you call it a G-7 meeting. India and China have been invited. I have accepted the invitation," he added.

The finance ministers of leading economies - US, UK, France, Japan, Canada, Germany, Italy, Russia, China and India - are expected to hold wide-ranging discussions on the global economy.