G8 summit in Deauville 2011
37th G8 summit
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 Deauville , France
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| Beginning | May 26, 2011 |
| The End | May 27, 2011 |
| Participants from the G8 group | |
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France
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Nicolas Sarkozy |
 Canada
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Stephen Harper |
 Germany
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Angela Merkel |
 Italy
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Silvio Berlusconi |
 Japan
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Naoto Kan |
 Russia
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Dmitry Medvedev |
 United Kingdom
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David Cameron |
 United States
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Barack Obama |
| Participants from the G5 group | |
 South Africa
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Jacob Zuma |
 China
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Hu Jintao |
 India
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Manmohan Singh |
 Mexico
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Felipe Calderón |
 Brazil
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Dilma Rousseff |
| International organizations | |
 European Union
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José Manuel Barroso Herman Van Rompuy |
 African Union
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Teodoro Mbasogo |
| Other participants | |
 Algeria
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Abd al-Aziz Bouteflika |
 Egypt
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Mohammed Tantawi |
 Nigeria
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Goodluck Jonathan |
 Senegal
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Abdoulaye Wade |
| ← 2010 | → 2012 |
The 2011 G8 summit in Deauville was the 37th summit of the Group of Eight heads of government . It took place from 26 to 27 May 2011 under the French presidency (by President Nicolas Sarkozy ) in the seaside resort of Deauville in the Calvados department in Normandy .
It was the sixth G6, G7 or G8 summit in France since 1975. Previous summits have taken place in Rambouillet (1975, G6), Versailles (1982, G7), Paris (1989, G7), Lyon (1996, G7) and Évian-les-Bains (2003, G8).
subjects
Arabic spring
To promote the Arab Spring were at the summit Egypt and Tunisia grants promised by 2013 in the amount of 20 billion dollars to support the reforms in these countries. The International Monetary Fund had previously warned of a financial emergency in the Arab states and stated a financial need of 160 billion for the next three years. The G8 states announced that they wanted to secure the democratic reforms by strengthening the economy and emphasized the importance of tourism, which had declined as a result of the Arab Spring. EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso stated that the affected region was "of the utmost strategic importance" for Europe and that the reforms would therefore continue to be supported. In addition, bilateral aid was announced.
In connection with the ongoing international military operation in Libya , the G8 heads of state and government demanded the resignation of the Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi , since the military operation could not be ended beforehand. The Russian President Medvedev said that Gaddafi would do by resigning his country "a favor". At the same time he announced that Russia would not give the Libyan dictator an exile.
In the final declaration of the summit, the G8 states condemned the violence in the Syrian civil war and called on the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to carry out reforms.
Another important topic of the meeting was - in view of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima - the future handling of nuclear power .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ G8 give billions for Tunisia and Egypt. Summit in Deauville. spiegel.de, May 27, 2011, accessed July 31, 2015 .
- ↑ $ 20 billion for Egypt and Tunisia. welt.de, May 27, 2011, accessed July 31, 2015 .
- ↑ Money rain for the "Arab Spring". focus.de, May 27, 2011, accessed on July 31, 2015 .
- ^ G8 states together against Gaddafi. Summit in Deauville. focus.de, May 27, 2011, accessed on July 31, 2015 .
- ↑ G8 are planning global stress tests for nuclear power plants. welt.de, May 26, 2011, accessed July 31, 2015 .
- ^ G8 summit begins in France , DiePresse.com , May 26, 2011. Accessed on May 26, 2011.