The 6th G7 Summit was held at Venice, Italy between June 22nd and 23rd, 1980. Venice is known for its waterways and gondolas Gondola. ...

Leaders at the Summit

• Canada - Pierre Elliot Trudeau
• France - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
• West Germany - Helmut Schmidt
• Italy - Francesco Cossiga
• Japan - Saburo Okita (Foreign Affairs Minister -- Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira died days before the summit)
• UK - Margaret Thatcher
• USA - Jimmy Carter
• European Communities - Roy Jenkins

Image File history File links Flag_of_Canada. ... Name Pierre Elliott Trudeau Number Fifteenth First term April 20, 1968–June 4,1979 Second term March 3, 1980–June 30, 1984 Predecessor Lester Bowles Pearson Successors Joe Clark John Napier Turner Date of birth October 18, 1919 Place of birth Montreal, Quebec Date of death September 28, 2000 Spouse... Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ... This article needs to be updated. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (born December 23, 1918) is a German SPD politician. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ... Francesco Cossiga (born July 26, 1928) is an Italian politician and former President of the Italian Republic. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Japan_(bordered). ... Masayoshi Ōhira (大平 正芳 Ōhira Masayoshi March 12, 1910–June 12, 1980) was a Japanese politician and the 68th and 69th Prime Minister of Japan from December 7, 1978 to June 12, 1980. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. ... Image File history File links European_flag. ... The European Community (EC), most important of three European Communities, was originally founded on March 25, 1957 by the signing of the Treaty of Rome under the name of European Economic Community. ... Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, OM, PC (November 11, 1920 – January 5, 2003) was a British politician and a prominent Labour Member of Parliament in the 1960s and 1970s, and founding member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). ...

See also

• G8

The Group of Eight (G8) consists of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. ...

External links

• UToronoto G8 project