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9th G7 summit
Summit details
Host country	United States
Dates	May 28-29 1983

The 9th G7 Summit was held at Williamsburg, Virginia during the 28th to 30th of May 1983. The venue for the summit meetings was Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.^[1]

The Group of Seven (G7) was an unofficial forum which brought together the heads of the richest industrialized countries: France, 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 Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt as they conceived the first Group of Six (G6) summit in 1975.^[4]

Leaders at the Summit

Summit leaders in front of the colonial capitol building -- standing (left to right): Pierre Trudeau, Gaston Thorn, Helmut Kohl, François Mitterrand, Ronald Reagan, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Margaret Thatcher and Amintore Fanfani.

• Canada - Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.^[1]
• France - President François Mitterrand.^[1]
• West Germany - Chancellor Helmut Kohl.^[1]
• Italy - Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani.^[1]
• Japan - Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.^[1]
• United Kingdom - Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.^[1]
• United States - President Ronald Reagan.^[1]

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]

The summit participants discussed economic issues, including the growing debt crisis. On the political front there was a call for arms control and greater co-operation in that field between the Soviet Union and the G7.

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 0-754-61185-X; 13-ISBN 978-0-754-61185-1; OCLC 43186692
• 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

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 1983, delegations & documents