Diplomatic Conferences in the United Kingdom: Imperial Conference, 31st G8 Summit, 2009 G-20 London Summit

Chapters: Imperial Conference, 31st G8 Summit, 2009 G-20 London Summit, United States Presidential Visits to United Kingdom, 17th G7 Summit, 24th G8 Summit, 10th G7 Summit, 3rd G7 Summit, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 1997, London Naval Conference, 1926 Imperial Conference, Conference of London, P8 Group, London Conference of 1832, London Conference of 1867, 1977 London Summit, First Colonial Conference, London Conference of 1913, London Conference of 1866, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 1977, Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference 1949, International Conference for Economic Sanctions Against South Africa. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 105. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The 31st G8 summit was held from July 6 to July 8, 2005 at the Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross, in Scotland and hosted by British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The locations of previous G8 summits to have been hosted by the United Kingdom include: London (1977, 1984, 1991); and Birmingham (1998). 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 and Canada starting in 1976. The G8, meeting for the first time in 1997, was formed with the addition of Russia. In addition, the President of the European Commission has been formally included in summits since 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 Giscard d'Estaing and Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt as they conceived the initial summit of the Group of Six (G6) in 1975. The G8...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2026615