| 2nd G7 summit Rambouillet II Economic Summit at Puerto Rico | |
|---|---|
 Delegates from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States during the second session | |
| Host country | United States |
| Dates | June 27–28, 1976 |
| Venue(s) | Dorado Beach Hotel (now Dorado Beach Resort) |
| Participants | |
| Follows | 1st G6 summit |
| Precedes | 3rd G7 summit |
The 2nd G7 Summit, also called Rambouillet II,[1] was held at Dorado, Puerto Rico, between June 27 and 28, 1976.[2] The venue for the summit meetings was the Dorado Beach Hotel, now Dorado Beach Resort, which is near San Juan, Puerto Rico.[3]
The Group of Six (G6) was an unofficial forum which brought together the heads of the richest industrialized countries: France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States; and the Group of Seven (G7), meeting for the first time this year, was formed with the addition of Canada.[4] This summit, and the others which would follow, were not meant to be linked formally with wider international institutions; and in fact, a kind of frustrated rebellion against the stiff formality of other international meetings was an element in the genesis of cooperation between France's president and West Germany's chancellor as they conceived the first summit of the G6.[5]
- ^ Silk, Leonard (16 June 1976). "New Economic Summit Has Political Air". The New York Times. p. 68. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 3 February 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
- ^ Japan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA): Summit Meetings in the Past; although this article is named "2nd G7 summit" because it is the second in a series of summits which will become continuing, it is actually the first time that the G7 meets
- ^ US Embassy in Japan: Chronology, June 1976; Archived 2010-07-15 at the Wayback Machine Shabecoff, Philip. "Go-Slow Policies Urged by Leaders in Economic Talks; Closing Statement Calls for Sustained Growth Coupled With Curbs on Inflation; Ford's Aims Realized; 7 Heads of Government Also Agree to Consider a New Body to Assist Italy Co-Slow Economic Policies Urged by 7 Leaders," New York Times. June 29, 1976; excerpt, "SAN JUAN, P.R., June 28 President Ford and six other leaders of industrial democracies announced here today that they had agreed to pursue the objective of sustained economic growth.... The leaders met at the palm fringed Dorado Beach Resort near here."
- ^ Saunders, Doug. "Weight of the world too heavy for G8 shoulders," Globe and Mail (Toronto). July 5, 2008 -- n.b., the G7 becomes the G8 with the inclusion of Russia starting in 1997.
- ^ Reinalda, Bob and Bertjan Verbeek. (1998). Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations, p. 205.