3rd G7 summit

3rd G7 summit
3rd G7 summit
	10 Downing Street in London, home of the British prime minister
Host country	United Kingdom
Dates	7–8 May 1977
Participants	Pierre Trudeau (Canada); Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (France); Helmut Schmidt (West Germany); Giulio Andreotti (Italy); Takeo Fukuda (Japan); James Callaghan (United Kingdom) (host); Jimmy Carter (United States); Roy Jenkins (European Commission); James Callaghan (European Commission);
Follows	2nd G7 summit
Precedes	4th G7 summit

The 3rd G7 Summit was held in London, United Kingdom between 7–8 May 1977. The venue for the summit meetings was the British Prime Minister's official residence at No. 10 Downing Street in London.

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.

This was the initial meeting in which the President of the European Commission was formally invited to take a part.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.