| 21st G7 summit | |
|---|---|
 Official logo | |
| Host country | Canada |
| Dates | June 15–17, 1995 |
| Follows | 20th G7 summit |
| Precedes | 22nd G7 summit |
The 21st G7 summit was held on June 15–17, 1995 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The venue for this summit meeting was Summit Place in Halifax.[1] It was labelled by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien as a "Chevrolet Summit", using a utilitarian automobile as a metaphor for the summit being less expensive than previous summits in Versailles and Venice.[2]
The Group of Seven (G7) is 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),[3] and the President of the European Commission (starting officially in 1981).[4] 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.[5]
- ^ "MOFA: List of Summit Meetings". www.mofa.go.jp. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
- ^ "U.S., Japan Still on Collision Course Over Trade : Diplomacy: Clinton and Murayama meet at summit, but neither budges on sanction threat". Los Angeles Times. 1995-06-16. Retrieved 2022-10-17.
- ^ Saunders, Doug. "Weight of the world too heavy for G8 shoulders," Archived 2008-10-11 at the Wayback Machine Globe and Mail (Toronto). July 5, 2008; the G7 evolves into the G8 with the addition of Russia starting in 1997.
- ^ Reuters: "Factbox: The Group of Eight: what is it?", July 3, 2008.
- ^ Reinalda, Bob and Bertjan Verbeek. (1998). Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations, p. 205.