10th G7 summit

The 10th G7 Summit was held in London, England, United Kingdom from 7 to 9 June 1984. The venue for the summit meetings was Lancaster House in London.[1]

10th G7 summit
Lancaster House in London
Host countryUnited Kingdom
Dates7–9 June 1984
Follows9th G7 summit
Precedes11th G7 summit

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
Summit leaders at Lancaster House: (left to right) Helmut Kohl, Bettino Craxi, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Francois Mitterrand, Pierre Trudeau, and Gaston Thorn.

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]

The 10th G7 summit was the first summit for Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi. It was also the last summit for Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

Participants

These summit participants are the current "core members" of the international forum:[5][1][6]

Core G7 members
Host state and leader are shown in bold text.
Member Represented by Title
Canada Pierre Trudeau Prime Minister
France François Mitterrand President
West Germany Helmut Kohl Chancellor
Italy Bettino Craxi Prime Minister
Japan Yasuhiro Nakasone Prime Minister
United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister
United States Ronald Reagan President
European Community Gaston Thorn Commission President
François Mitterrand Council 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
  • economic 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

See also

Notes
  1. Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA): Summit Meetings in the Past.
  2. Saunders, Doug. "Weight of the world too heavy for G8 shoulders," Archived 2009-04-29 at WebCite 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. Reuters: "Factbox: The Group of Eight: what is it?", July 3, 2008.
  4. 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)," Archived 2010-06-03 at the Wayback Machine Brookings. March 27, 2009; "core" members (Muskoka 2010 G-8, official site). Archived June 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  6. MOFA: Summit (10); European Union: "EU and the G8" Archived 2007-02-26 at the Wayback Machine

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. ISBN 978-0-7546-1185-1; OCLC 43186692 (Archived 2009-04-29)
  • Reinalda, Bob and Bertjan Verbeek. (1998). Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-16486-3; ISBN 978-0-203-45085-7; OCLC 39013643
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