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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 12th G7
Summit was held in Tokyo, Japan between May 4 and May 6, 1986. The venue
for the summit meetings was the State Guesthouse in Tokyo, Japan. 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 Giscard d'Estaing and
Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt as they conceived the first Group of
Six (G6) summit in 1975.
