5th G7 summit

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The 5th G7 Summit was held at Tokyo, Japan between June 28 and 29, 1979. The venue for the summit meetings was the State Guesthouse in Tokyo, Japan.[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]

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.[3]

The 5th G7 summit was the first summit for British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. It was also the first and only summit for Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark and Japanese Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira.

Participants

File:G-7 Economic Summit Leaders in Tokyo.jpg
Group shot of world leaders attending the Economic Summit (l to r): France (V. Giscard d'Estain), Japan (Masayoshi Ohira), US (Jimmy Carter), UK (Margaret Thatcher), Italy (Giulio Andreotti), and Canada (Joe Clar), W Germany (Helmut Schmidt)

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
Template:Flagicon Canada Joe Clark 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 Masayoshi Ōhira Prime Minister
Template:Flagicon United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister
Template:Flagicon United States Jimmy Carter President
Template:Flagicon European Community Roy Jenkins Commission President
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing 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] Coming amidst the "second oil shock" caused by the Iranian Revolution, the summit became devoted to the problem of energy, according to historian Daniel Yergin. "It was also a very nasty one. Tempers were badly frayed." US President Jimmy Carter stated that West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt "got personally abusive toward me .... He alleged that American interference in the Middle East trying to work for a peace treaty was what had cause the problems with oil all over the world."[7]

Gallery of participating leaders

Core G7 participants

See also

Notes

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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. ↑ 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
  6. ↑ MOFA: Summit (8); European Union: "EU and the G8" Template:Webarchive
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References

External links

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