10th G7 summit

10th G7 summit
Lancaster House in London
Summit details
Host country	United Kingdom
Dates	June 7-9, 1984

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

Core G7 participants

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

Core G7 members Host nation and leader are indicated in bold text.
Member		Represented by	Title
	Canada	Pierre Trudeau [1]	Prime Minister
	France	François Mitterrand [1]	President
	West Germany	Helmut Kohl [1]	Chancellor
	Italy	Bettino Craxi [1]	Prime Minister
	Japan	Yasuhiro Nakasone [1]	Prime Minister
	United Kingdom	Margaret Thatcher [1]	Prime Minister
	United States	Ronald Reagan [1]	President
	European Commission	Gaston Thorn [6]	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
• economcy 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

• G8

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. 10-ISBN 0-7546-1185-X; 13-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. 10-ISBN 0-415-16486-9/13-ISBN 978-0-415-16486-3; 13-ISBN 978-0-203-45085-7;10-ISBN 0-203-45085-X; OCLC 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
  • G7 1984, delegations & documents