8th G7 summit

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.

The 8th G7 summit was the last summit for German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini and Japanese Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki.

Participants

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

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:President François Mitterrand in 1983.jpg|France France François Mitterrand, President (Host) File:Helmut Schmidt (13.07.1977).jpg|Germany Germany Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor File:Giovanni Spadolini.jpg|Italy Italy Giovanni Spadolini, Prime Minister File:Zenko Suzuki 19800717.jpg|Japan Japan Zenkō Suzuki, Prime Minister File:Margaret Thatcher (1983).jpg|United Kingdom United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister File:Official Portrait of President Reagan 1981-cropped.jpg|United States United States Ronald Reagan, President File:Gaston Thorn (1984).jpg|European Union European Community Gaston Thorn, President of the Commission File:Flickr - europeanpeoplesparty - CDU Congress Karlsruhe (9) (cropped).jpg|European Union European Community Wilfried Martens (Prime Minister of Belgium), rotating President of the Council

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. ; ;

References

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3. Reuters: [https://web.archive.org/web/20081023185037/http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKB26280520080703?sp=true "Factbox: The Group of Eight: what is it?"], July 3, 2008.
4. Reinalda, Bob and Bertjan Verbeek. (1998). [https://books.google.com/books?id=Bt3AzOHtXwgC&dq=G7+summit&pg=PA205 ''Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations,'' p. 205.]
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