G7 summit in Venice in 1980
The G7 summit in Venice in 1980 took place on 22 and 23 June 1980 in Venice instead. It was the sixth G7 meeting. The venue for the summit meeting was the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in the Venetian lagoon.
Attendees
- Federal Republic of Germany - Helmut Schmidt
- France - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
- Italy - Francesco Cossiga
- Japan - Saburo Okita (Foreign Minister, in place of the recently deceased Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira )
- Canada - Pierre Trudeau
- United States - Jimmy Carter
- United Kingdom - Margaret Thatcher
The European Community was represented by Roy Jenkins .