3rd G7 summit

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The 3rd G7 Summit was held in London, United Kingdom between 7–8 May 1977. The venue for the summit meetings was the British Prime Minister's official residence at No. 10 Downing Street in London.[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 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and West Germany's chancellor Helmut Schmidt as they conceived the first Group of Six (G6) summit in 1975.[4]

This was the initial meeting in which the President of the European Commission was formally invited to take a part.[5]

Leaders at the summit

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G7 leaders and members of the British royal family, in London, 13 May 1977. Left to right: Pierre Trudeau (Charles, Prince of Wales, far background); Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon; Takeo Fukuda; James Callaghan; Valéry Giscard d'Estaing; Queen Elizabeth II; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother; Jimmy Carter; Giulio Andreotti; Helmut Schmidt

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 3rd G7 summit was the first summit for Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda, and US President Jimmy Carter.

Participants

These summit participants are the current "core members" of the international forum:[6][1][7]

Core G7 members
Host state and leader are shown in bold text.
Member Represented by Title
Template:Flagicon Canada Pierre Trudeau Prime Minister
Template:Flagicon France Valéry Giscard d'Estaing President
Template:Flagicon West Germany Helmut Schmidt Chancellor
Template:Flagicon Italy Giulio Andreotti Prime Minister
Template:Flagicon Japan Takeo Fukuda Prime Minister
Template:Flagicon United Kingdom James Callaghan Prime Minister
Template:Flagicon United States Jimmy Carter President
Template:Flagicon European Community Roy Jenkins Commission President
James Callaghan 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]

Accomplishments

The leaders came out with the Downing Street Summit Declaration.[8]

Gallery of participating leaders

Core G7 participants

See also

Notes

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References

External links

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  1. ↑ a b Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA): Summit Meetings in the Past.
  2. ↑ Saunders, Doug. "Weight of the world too heavy for G8 shoulders," Template:Webarchive 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. ↑ a b Reuters: "Factbox: The Group of Eight: what is it?", July 3, 2008.
  4. ↑ a b Reinalda, Bob and Bertjan Verbeek. (1998). Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations, p. 205.
  5. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  6. ↑ Rieffel, Lex. "Regional Voices in Global Governance: Looking to 2010 (Part IV)," Template:Webarchive Brookings. March 27, 2009; "core" members (Muskoka 2010 G-8, official site). Template:Webarchive
  7. ↑ MOFA: Summit (8); European Union: "EU and the G8" Template:Webarchive
  8. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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