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Brazil's President Lula da Silva was happy with his participation in restructuring the global economy.
The Brazilian Leader said that is no logic to making any political and economic decisions without the G20 members - developing countries must be part of the solution to the global financial crisis.
Lula's comments were echoed by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who said the crisis served as proof that countries which were excluded in the past must be included in the future.
At the end, Lula is feeling like an important guest, maybe forgetting that should be one of George Bush last parties.
President Lula is also heading to the end of his presidency.
Global economic realityPresident Lula was in rare no-holds barred form at the G20 summit in Washington.
He told reporters that the Group of Eight (G8) - the world's seven leading industrialised nations plus Russia - was an organisation that was no longer viable, calling it irrelevant.
"There is no logic to making any political and economic decisions without the G20 members - developing countries must be part of the solution to the global financial crisis," he said.
And, it could be argued that President Lula had good reason to be so blunt.
After all, as he pointed out, it is the world's richest countries that have been at the centre of the current global economic crisis.
He said it was now up to them to solve their economic problems before they made things even worse for the developing world.
After the summit, he hailed as historic the decision agreed at the meeting to give a role to the emerging economic powers like Brazil, China and India in restructure the global economy.
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