10th G7 summit
10th G7 summit | |
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Host country | United Kingdom |
Dates | 7–9 June 1984 |
Follows | 9th G7 summit |
Precedes | 11th G7 summit |
The 10th G7 Summit was held in London, England, United Kingdom from 7 to 9 June 1984. The venue for the summit meetings was Lancaster House in London.[1]
The Group of Seven (G7) was an unofficial forum which brought together the heads of the richest industrialized countries: France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada (since 1976)[2] and the President of the European Commission (starting officially in 1981).[3] The summits were not meant to be linked formally with wider international institutions; and in fact, a mild rebellion against the stiff formality of other international meetings was a part of the genesis of cooperation between France's President Giscard d'Estaing and West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt as they conceived the first Group of Six (G6) summit in 1975.[4]
Leaders at the summit[]
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The G7 is an unofficial annual forum for the leaders of Canada, the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.[3]
The 10th G7 summit was the first summit for Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi. It was also the last summit for Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Participants[]
These summit participants are the current "core members" of the international forum:[5][1][6]
Core G7 members Host state and leader are shown in bold text. | |||
Member | Represented by | Title | |
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Canada | Pierre Trudeau | Prime Minister |
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France | François Mitterrand | President |
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West Germany | Helmut Kohl | Chancellor |
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Italy | Bettino Craxi | Prime Minister |
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Japan | Yasuhiro Nakasone | Prime Minister |
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United Kingdom | Margaret Thatcher | Prime Minister |
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United States | Ronald Reagan | President |
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European Community | Gaston Thorn | Commission President |
François Mitterrand | Council President |
Issues[]
The summit was intended as a venue for resolving differences among its members. As a practical matter, the summit was also conceived as an opportunity for its members to give each other mutual encouragement in the face of difficult economic decisions.[4] Issues which were discussed at this summit included:
- economic problems, prospects and opportunities for our countries and for the world
- world recession
- enduring growth and the creation of new jobs
- growing strain of public expenditure
- unemployment
- political and economic challenges for developing countries
- debt burdens of developing countries and role for the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- policies to reduce inflation, interest rates
- control monetary growth and reduce budgetary deficits
- business innovations
- labour issues and opportunities
- economic stability and management
- development assistance and assistance through the international financial and development institutions to the developing countries
- third world debt
- trade liberalization
- poverty and drought
- oil and the Gulf
- East Bloc
- Job creation innovations in Italy
- environment
- manned space station
Gallery[]
Germany
Helmut Kohl, Chancellor
See also[]
- G8
Notes[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA): Summit Meetings in the Past.
- ^ Saunders, Doug. "Weight of the world too heavy for G8 shoulders," Archived 2009-04-29 at WebCite Globe and Mail (Toronto). July 5, 2008 -- n.b., the G7 becomes the Group of Eight (G7) with the inclusion of Russia starting in 1997.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Reuters: "Factbox: The Group of Eight: what is it?", July 3, 2008.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Reinalda, Bob and Bertjan Verbeek. (1998). Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations, p. 205.
- ^ Rieffel, Lex. "Regional Voices in Global Governance: Looking to 2010 (Part IV)," Archived 2010-06-03 at the Wayback Machine Brookings. March 27, 2009; "core" members (Muskoka 2010 G-8, official site). Archived June 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ MOFA: Summit (10); European Union: "EU and the G8" Archived 2007-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
References[]
- Bayne, Nicholas and Robert D. Putnam. (2000). Hanging in There: The G7 and G8 Summit in Maturity and Renewal. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7546-1185-1; OCLC 43186692 (Archived 2009-04-29)
- Reinalda, Bob and Bertjan Verbeek. (1998). Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-16486-3; ISBN 978-0-203-45085-7; OCLC 39013643
External links[]
- No official website is created for any G7 summit prior to 1995 -- see the 21st G7 summit.
- University of Toronto: G8 Research Group, G8 Information Centre
- G7 summits
- Diplomatic conferences in the United Kingdom
- 20th-century diplomatic conferences
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