10th G7 summit

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10th G7 summit

Lancaster House in London
Host country United Kingdom
Dates June 7-9, 1984

The 10th G7 Summit was held at the in London, England, United Kingdom between June 7 to 9, 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

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]

Core G7 participants

These summit participants are the current "core members" of the international forum:[5]

Core G7 members
Host nation and leader are indicated in bold text.
Member Represented by Title
Canada Canada Pierre Trudeau [1] Prime Minister
France France François Mitterrand [1] President
Germany West Germany Helmut Kohl [1] Chancellor
Italy Italy Bettino Craxi [1] Prime Minister
Japan Japan Yasuhiro Nakasone [1] Prime Minister
United Kingdom United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher [1] Prime Minister
United States United States Ronald Reagan [1] President
European Union European Commission Gaston Thorn [6] 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
  • economcy 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

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA): Summit Meetings in the Past.
  2. ↑ Saunders, Doug. "Weight of the world too heavy for G8 shoulders," 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.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Reuters: "Factbox: The Group of Eight: what is it?", July 3, 2008.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Reinalda, Bob and Bertjan Verbeek. (1998). Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations, p. 205.
  5. ↑ Rieffel, Lex. "Regional Voices in Global Governance: Looking to 2010 (Part IV)," Brookings. March 27, 2009; "core" members (Muskoka 2010 G-8, official site).
  6. ↑ MOFA: Summit (10); European Union: "EU and the G8"

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Preceded by
9th G7 summit		 10th G8 summit
1984
United Kingdom 		Succeeded by
11th G7 summit
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