ABSTRACT
The Lyon Group gradually became associated with the Roma Group, another group of experts within the G8 system that devoted itself solely to terrorism questions. Although the name "Lyon or Roma Group" was only adopted in 2003, it was the attacks of September 11, 2001 that initially prompted the Lyon and Roma Groups to come together, starting in November of that year. The most striking references to terrorism appeared in communiques issued at the summits held in Tokyo (1986), Paris (1989), Halifax (1995) and Lyon (1996) in relation to the Libyan situation, the Lockerbie bombing (1989), the Paris bombing (1995), the Tokyo gas attack (1995) and the bombing in Dhahran (1996). The Lyon or Roma Group operates along the same lines as the Lyon Group, in particular as far as the regularity of its meetings and the procedures for feeding its work back to the G8 as a whole are concerned.
