18Th G7 Summit

The venue for the summit meetings was at the Residenz palace in central Munich.

18th G7 summit
Wittelsbach palace in Munich, the Residenz
Host country	Germany
Dates	6–8 July 1992
Follows	17th G7 summit
Precedes	19th G7 summit

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), 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 18th G7 summit was the first summit for Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato and Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa. It was also the last summit for Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and US President George H. W. Bush.

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	Brian Mulroney	Prime Minister
	France	François Mitterrand	President
	Germany	Helmut Kohl	Chancellor
	Italy	Giuliano Amato	Prime Minister
	Japan	Kiichi Miyazawa	Prime Minister
	United Kingdom	John Major	Prime Minister
	United States	George H. W. Bush	President
	European Community	Jacques Delors	Commission President
		John Major	Council President

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:

• World Economy
• United Nations Conference on Environment and Development(UNCED)
• Developing Countries
• Central and Eastern Europe
• New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union
• Safety of Nuclear Power Plants in the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union and in Central and Eastern Europe

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    Canada
  Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister
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    France
  François Mitterrand, President
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    Germany
  Helmut Kohl, Chancellor
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    Italy
  Giuliano Amato, Prime Minister
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    Japan
  Kiichi Miyazawa, Prime Minister
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    United Kingdom
  John Major, Prime Minister
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    United States
  George H. W. Bush, President
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    European Union
  Jacques Delors, Commission President

• G8

• 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 2012-11-10 at the Wayback Machine 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

• 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 1992, delegations & documents