9th G7 summit
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 Governor's Palace in Williamsburg |
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| Dates | May 28-29, 1983 |
The 9th G7 Summit was held at Williamsburg, Virginia, United States during the 28th to 30th of May 1983. The venue for the summit meetings was Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.[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]
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[edit] 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]
[edit] 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. |
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| Member | Represented by | Title | |
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Canada | Pierre Trudeau [1] | Prime Minister |
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France | François Mitterrand [1] | President |
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West Germany | Helmut Kohl [1] | Chancellor |
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Italy | Amintore Fanfani [1] | Prime Minister |
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Japan | Yasuhiro Nakasone [1] | Prime Minister |
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United Kingdom | Margaret Thatcher [1] | Prime Minister |
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United States | Ronald Reagan [1] | President |
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European Commission | Gaston Thorn [6] | President |
[edit] 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]
The summit participants discussed economic issues, including the growing debt crisis. On the political front there was a call for arms control and greater co-operation in that field between the Soviet Union and the G7.
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA): Summit Meetings in the Past.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Reuters: "Factbox: The Group of Eight: what is it?", July 3, 2008.
- ^ 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)," Brookings. March 27, 2009; "core" members (Muskoka 2010 G-8, official site).
- ^ MOFA: Summit (9); European Union: "EU and the G8"
[edit] 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. 10-ISBN 0-7546-1185-X; 13-ISBN 978-0-7546-1185-1; OCLC 43186692
- Reinalda, Bob and Bertjan Verbeek. (1998). Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations. London: Routledge. 10-ISBN 0-415-16486-9/13-ISBN 978-0-415-16486-3; 13-ISBN 978-0-203-45085-7;10-ISBN 0-203-45085-X; OCLC 39013643
[edit] 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
| Preceded by 8th G7 summit |
9th G8 summit 1983 United States |
Succeeded by 10th G7 summit |
