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11th G7 summit

The 11th G7 Summit was held in Bonn, West Germany between May 2 and May 4, 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.[1]

11th G7 summit

West Germany

May 2–4, 1985

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]

Growth and Employment

Relations with Developing Countries

Multilateral Trading System and International Monetary System

Environment Policies

Cooperation in Science and Technology

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:

G8

Bayne, Nicholas and Robert D. Putnam. (2000). Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7546-1185-1; OCLC 43186692( Archived 2012-11-10 at the Wayback Machine 2009-04-29)

Hanging in There: The G7 and G8 Summit in Maturity and Renewal.

Reinalda, Bob and Bertjan Verbeek. (1998). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-16486-3; ISBN 978-0-203-45085-7; OCLC 39013643

Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations.

No official website is created for any G7 summit prior to 1995 -- see the .

21st G7 summit

University of Toronto

G7 1985, delegations & documents