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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 6th G7 Summit
was held at Venice, Italy between June 22 and 23rd, 1980. The venue for
the summit meetings was the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in the
Venetian lagoon. 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.
