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1985 international leader meeting in Germany
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The 11th G7 Summit was held in Bonn, West Germany between 2 and 4 May 1985. The venue for the summit meeting was at the former official residence of the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn, the Palais Schaumburg.Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA): Summit Meetings in the Past.. Accessed 11 March 2009. Archived 2009-04-29.
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),Saunders, Doug. "Weight of the world too heavy for G8 shoulders," https://web.archive.org/web/20081011063004/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080704.wG8-analysis05/BNStory/International/columnists 11 October 2008 Globe and Mail (Toronto). 5 July 2008 – n.b., the G7 becomes the Group of Eight (G7) with the inclusion of Russia starting in 1997. and the President of the European Commission (starting officially in 1981).Reuters: "Factbox: The Group of Eight: what is it?", 3 July 2008. 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.Reinalda, Bob and Bertjan Verbeek. (1998). Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations, p. 205.
Leaders at the summit
thumb|Summit leaders at the Palais Schaumburg: (left to right) Jacques Delors, Bettino Craxi, François Mitterrand, Margaret Thatcher, Helmut Kohl, Ronald Reagan, Yasuhiro Nakasone, and Brian Mulroney
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 11th G7 summit was the first summit for Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
Participants
These summit participants are the current "core members" of the international forum:Rieffel, Lex. "Regional Voices in Global Governance: Looking to 2010 (Part IV)," https://web.archive.org/web/20100603074840/http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2009/0327_global_governance_rieffel.aspx 3 June 2010 Brookings. 27 March 2009; "core" members (Muskoka 2010 G-8, official site). https://web.archive.org/web/20100602190742/http://g8.gc.ca/about/member-states/ 2 June 2010 MOFA: Summit (11); European Union: "EU and the G8" https://web.archive.org/web/20070226165606/http://www.deljpn.ec.europa.eu/union/showpage_en_union.external.g8.php 26 February 2007
Core G7 membersHost state and leader are shown in bold text. Member Represented by Title CAN Canada Brian Mulroney Prime Minister FRA 1974 France François Mitterrand President West Germany West Germany Helmut Kohl Chancellor Italy Italy Bettino Craxi Prime Minister Japan 1947 Japan Yasuhiro Nakasone Prime Minister UK United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister US United States Ronald Reagan President European Union European Community Jacques Delors Commission President Bettino Craxi 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. Issues which were discussed at this summit included:
Growth and Employment
Relations with Developing Countries
Multilateral Trading System and International Monetary System
Environment Policies
Cooperation in Science and Technology
Gallery of participating leaders
Core G7 participants
See also
G8
Notes
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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. 978-0-7546-1185-1; OCLC 43186692( https://web.archive.org/web/20121110194051/http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/43186692 10 November 2012 2009-04-29)
Reinalda, Bob and Bertjan Verbeek. (1998). Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations. London: Routledge. 978-0-415-16486-3; 978-0-203-45085-7; 39013643
External links
No official website is created for any G7 summit prior to 1995 – see the 21st G7 summit.
University of Toronto: G8 Research Group, G8 Information Centre
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