10Th G7 Summit

The venue for the summit meetings was Lancaster House in London.

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), and the President of the European Commission (starting officially in 1981). 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.

 

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.

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:

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

 

Joint Statement

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher delivers a joint statement on behalf of the summit, 9 June 1984

---

Problems playing this file? See media help.

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. 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

•  
    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
•  
    United States
  Ronald Reagan, President
•  
    European Commission
  Gaston Thorn, President

• G8