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]
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] This was the first summit where none of the original participants from 1975 were still in office.
US President Ronald Reagan and his advisers at Williamsburg
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]
Meetings of the G7 focus on issues related to the economy and multinational efforts to connect these issues. However, talks led by President Reagan at this G7 Summit also concentrated on tensions with the Soviet Union and the need for missile deployment in Europe to encourage the Soviet Union to return to arms control talks in Geneva. A bilateral discussion was held between Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher prior to the G-7 meeting. Thatcher stressed the need to reaffirm the NATO double-track decision of 1979 approach to talks with the Soviets. Thatcher and Reagan agreed that it would be helpful to have G-7 reaffirm the decision. However, President François Mitterrand and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau were hesitant to agree. The first meeting of the leaders was head of state only. At the coffee hour Reagan appeared concerned that it would not be possible to get full agreement. Following the coffee break the first meeting of the Summit, Reagan forged an agreement with the strong support of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan, Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany and Thatcher. The need to deploy the Pershing II missiles was reached and reaffirmed. This decision showed the unity of Western leaders as they forged ahead to seek meaningful arms control agreements with the Soviet Union and it was a critical step in the arms control agreements reached between Soviet General SecretaryMikhail Gorbachev and Reagan two years later at the Geneva Summit, the first meeting between these two leaders.
In addition to the reinforcement of the double-track decision on arms control, the leaders were confronted with a stubborn world economy, double digit inflation, high interest rates and high unemployment. These economic conditions were stimulated, in part, due to higher oil prices in the early 1980s caused by the Iranian Revolution. The G-7 summit a year earlier had been held in Versailles, hosted by Mitterrand. Reagan felt that it was important to stress the importance of free markets and free trade and transparency in international dealings. After two days of debate, the leaders agreed to the Williamsburg Declaration,[8] which stands as quite unique in terms of G-7 communiques as it was a short ten point declaration and it was read in its entirety by Reagan seated before the other leaders The significance of the Declaration cannot be over-emphasized as it was the free market principles agreed to by the leaders at the summit that provided an international environment of free trade and investment that propelled the world economies out of economic recession toward durable economic growth of twenty years. The declaration was prepared by a small team of NSC advisers close to Reagan.[9]
The Williamsburg Economic Summit was the only international meeting chaired by Reagan.
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Referencesedit
Bayne, Nicholas and Robert D. Putnam. (2000). Hanging in There: The G7 and G8 Summit in Maturity and Renewal. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing. ISBN978-0-7546-1185-1; OCLC 43186692
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The 9th G7 Summit was held at Williamsburg Virginia United States between May 28 and 30 1983 The venue for the summit meetings was Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia 1 9th G7 summitGovernor s Palace in WilliamsburgHost countryUnited StatesDatesMay 28 29 1983Venue s Colonial Capitol BuildingCitiesWilliamsburg VirginiaFollows8th G7 summitPrecedes10th 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 Valery Giscard d Estaing and West Germany s chancellor Helmut Schmidt as they conceived the first Group of Six G6 summit in 1975 4 Contents 1 Leaders at the summit 1 1 Participants 2 Issues 3 Gallery 4 See also 5 Notes 6 References 7 External linksLeaders at the summit edit nbsp Summit leaders in front of the colonial Capitol building Left to right Pierre Trudeau Gaston Thorn Helmut Kohl Francois Mitterrand Ronald Reagan Yasuhiro Nakasone Margaret Thatcher and Amintore Fanfani 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 This was the first summit where none of the original participants from 1975 were still in office The 9th G7 summit was the first summit for German Chancellor Helmut Kohl Italian Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone Participants edit These summit participants are the current core members of the international forum 5 6 1 7 Core G7 membersHost state and leader are shown in bold text Member Represented by Title nbsp Canada Pierre Trudeau Prime Minister nbsp France Francois Mitterrand President nbsp West Germany Helmut Kohl Chancellor nbsp Italy Amintore Fanfani Prime Minister nbsp Japan Yasuhiro Nakasone Prime Minister nbsp United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister nbsp United States Ronald Reagan President nbsp European Community Gaston Thorn Commission President Helmut Kohl Council PresidentIssues edit nbsp US President Ronald Reagan and his advisers at Williamsburg 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 Meetings of the G7 focus on issues related to the economy and multinational efforts to connect these issues However talks led by President Reagan at this G7 Summit also concentrated on tensions with the Soviet Union and the need for missile deployment in Europe to encourage the Soviet Union to return to arms control talks in Geneva A bilateral discussion was held between Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher prior to the G 7 meeting Thatcher stressed the need to reaffirm the NATO double track decision of 1979 approach to talks with the Soviets Thatcher and Reagan agreed that it would be helpful to have G 7 reaffirm the decision However President Francois Mitterrand and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau were hesitant to agree The first meeting of the leaders was head of state only At the coffee hour Reagan appeared concerned that it would not be possible to get full agreement Following the coffee break the first meeting of the Summit Reagan forged an agreement with the strong support of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany and Thatcher The need to deploy the Pershing II missiles was reached and reaffirmed This decision showed the unity of Western leaders as they forged ahead to seek meaningful arms control agreements with the Soviet Union and it was a critical step in the arms control agreements reached between Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and Reagan two years later at the Geneva Summit the first meeting between these two leaders In addition to the reinforcement of the double track decision on arms control the leaders were confronted with a stubborn world economy double digit inflation high interest rates and high unemployment These economic conditions were stimulated in part due to higher oil prices in the early 1980s caused by the Iranian Revolution The G 7 summit a year earlier had been held in Versailles hosted by Mitterrand Reagan felt that it was important to stress the importance of free markets and free trade and transparency in international dealings After two days of debate the leaders agreed to the Williamsburg Declaration 8 which stands as quite unique in terms of G 7 communiques as it was a short ten point declaration and it was read in its entirety by Reagan seated before the other leaders The significance of the Declaration cannot be over emphasized as it was the free market principles agreed to by the leaders at the summit that provided an international environment of free trade and investment that propelled the world economies out of economic recession toward durable economic growth of twenty years The declaration was prepared by a small team of NSC advisers close to Reagan 9 The Williamsburg Economic Summit was the only international meeting chaired by Reagan Gallery edit nbsp nbsp CanadaPierre Trudeau Prime Minister nbsp nbsp FranceFrancois Mitterrand President nbsp nbsp GermanyHelmut Kohl Chancellor nbsp nbsp ItalyAmintore Fanfani Prime Minister nbsp nbsp JapanYasuhiro Nakasone Prime Minister nbsp nbsp United KingdomMargaret Thatcher Prime Minister nbsp nbsp United StatesRonald Reagan President nbsp nbsp European CommissionGaston Thorn PresidentSee also editG8Notes edit a b MOFA List of Summit Meetings mofa go jp Archived copy The Globe and Mail Archived from the original on October 11 2008 Retrieved August 23 2017 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link a b FACTBOX The Group of Eight what is it Reuters UK a b Reinalda Bob Verbeek Bertjan 1998 Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations Taylor amp Francis p 205 ISBN 9780203450857 Lex Rieffel March 27 2009 Regional Voices in Global Governance Looking to 2010 The Brookings Institution Archived from the original on June 3 2010 Regional Voices in Global Governance Looking to 2010 Brookings Institution Archived from the original on June 3 2010 Retrieved May 29 2010 MOFA Summit 9 European Union EU and the G8 Archived February 26 2007 at the Wayback Machine UTLink G7 Economic Summit Williamsburg VA 1983 utoronto ca Martin William Flynn NSC Director of International Economic Affairs PDF wpainc com Archived from the original PDF on October 21 2013 Retrieved August 19 2013 References editBayne 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 Reinalda Bob and Bertjan Verbeek 1998 Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations London Routledge ISBN 978 0 415 16486 3 ISBN 0 203 45085 X OCLC 39013643External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to 9th G7 summit 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 1983 delegations amp documents Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 9th G7 summit amp oldid 1218546892, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
