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 country	United Kingdom
Dates	June 7–9, 1984
Venue(s)	Lancaster House
Cities	London, England
Follows	9th G7 summit
Precedes	11th 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 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

Summit leaders at Lancaster House: (left to right) Helmut Kohl, Bettino Craxi, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, François 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 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 and 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 Persian Gulf
• the Eastern Bloc
• job creation innovations in Italy
• the environment
• manned space stations

Gallery of participating leaders

Core G7 participants

• 
  Canada
  Pierre Trudeau,
  Prime Minister
• 
  France
  François Mitterrand,
  President
• 
  Germany
  Helmut Kohl,
  Chancellor
• 
  Italy
  Bettino Craxi,
  Prime Minister
• 
  Japan
  Yasuhiro Nakasone,
  Prime Minister
• 
  United Kingdom
  Margaret Thatcher,
  Prime Minister (Host)
• 
  United States
  Ronald Reagan,
  President

• 
  European Commission
  Gaston Thorn,
  President

See also

• G8

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 2008-10-11 at the Wayback Machine 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

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