21st G7 summit

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21st G7 summit

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Host country Canada
Dates June 15–17, 1995

The 21st G7 summit was held from June 15 to June 17, 1995 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The venue for this summit meeting was Summit Place in Halifax.[1] It was labelled by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien as a "Chevrolet Summit", using a utilitarian automobile as a metaphor for the summit being less expensive than previous summits in Versailles and Venice.[2]

The Group of Seven (G7) was an unofficial forum which brought together the heads of the richest industrialized countries: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada (since 1976)[3] and the President of the European Commission (starting officially in 1981).[4] 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.[5]

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.[4] Boris Yeltsin was also in attendance representing the Russian Federation.

Core G7 participants

These summit participants are the current "core members" of the international forum:[6]

Core G7 members
Host nation and leader are indicated in bold text.
Member Represented by Title
Canada Canada Jean Chrétien [1] Prime Minister
France France Jacques Chirac [1] President
Germany Germany Helmut Kohl [1] Chancellor
Italy Italy Lamberto Dini [1] Prime Minister
Japan Japan Tomiichi Murayama [1] Prime Minister
United Kingdom United Kingdom John Major [1] Prime Minister
United States United States Bill Clinton [1] President
European Union European Commission Jacques Santer [7] 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.[5] Issues which were discussed at this summit included:

  • Growth and Employment
  • Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century
  • Strengthening the Global Economy
  • Promoting Sustainable Development
  • Reducing Poverty
  • Safeguarding the Environment
  • Preventing and Responding to Crises
  • Reinforcing Coherence, Effectiveness and Efficiency of Institutions
  • Creating Opportunities through Open Markets
  • Economies in Transition
  • Nuclear Safety

Accomplishments

This was the first year that the G8 summit was marked by an official World Wide Web site on the Internet sponsored by the Canadian Government. Two unofficial Web pages were also created, one set up by Dalhousie University in Halifax, the summit site, and the other created by teachers and students of Cornwallis Junior High School there.[8]

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Preceded by
20th G7 summit
21st G8 summit
1995
Canada
Succeeded by
22nd G7 summit
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