We're not G8 protesters, says Nighy

10:11am Wednesday 9th July 2008

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He may be campaigning at the G8 summit in Japan on behalf of Oxfam, but veteran actor Bill Nighy has insisted that he is not a protester.

The actor said: "I am not protesting against the G8. We are not protesters, I prefer to think of us as a kind of benign nuisance."

He explained that he hoped to hold the G8 leaders to account over the Millennium Development goals, outlined at the 2000 summit.

He added: "We want to achieve exactly what we wanted to achieve last time, which is to keep the G8 leaders and their governments to their promise.

"The promise that they would fulfil the Millennium Development Goals: primary school education for everyone; HIV medicines for all the people that are requiring it; maternal health; sustainable environment.

"We simply want them not to renege on those promises and to keep it up to schedule.

"At the moment, they are disastrously behind schedule. So we are looking to remind them of that."

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