6th G7 summit

Leaders at the summit

The G7 is an unofficial annual forum for the leaders of Canada, the European Commission, France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Japanese prime minister Masayoshi Ōhira suffered a fatal heart attack on 12 June, only days before the summit; and his colleague, Foreign Minister Saburō Ōkita, led the delegation which represented Japan in his place. Others joining Ōkita in Venice were Finance Minister Noboru Takeshita and the Minister of International Trade and Industry Yoshitake Sasaki who attended the foreign minister's meeting in Ōkita's place.

The 6th G7 summit was the last summit for French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and US president Jimmy Carter. It was also the first and only summit for Italian prime minister Francesco Cossiga.

Participants

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

Japanese Prime Minister Masayoshi Ōhira had died from a heart attack just days before, and the acting PM was unable to attend.

The format order of this section mirrors the order of the Muskoka 2010 G8 official website -- see http://g8.gc.ca/about/member-states/

This format order is also congruent with "Summit Meetings of the Past" at website of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs -- see http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/economy/summit/2000/past_summit/table_e/index.html

• Canada
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Japan
• United Kingdom
• USA

• European Union

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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.

Gallery of participating leaders

Core G7 participants

File:Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau 1975 (UPI press photo) (cropped).jpg|Canada Canada Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister File:Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1975).jpg|France France Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President File:Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt.jpg|Germany Germany Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor File:Francesco Cossiga 1979.jpg|Italy Italy Francesco Cossiga, Prime Minister (Host) File:Saburo Okita at 6th G7 summit.jpg|Japan Japan Saburō Ōkita, Minister for Foreign Affairs File:Margaret Thatcher (1983).jpg|United Kingdom United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister File:Carter cropped.jpg|United States United States Jimmy Carter, President File:Roy Jenkins 1977 (cropped).jpg|EU European Union Roy Jenkins, Commission President

Notes

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. ; OCLC 43186692
• Reinalda, Bob and Bertjan Verbeek. (1998). Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations. London: Routledge. ; ; OCLC 39013643

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