page_title: 7th G7 summit
section_title: Leaders at the summit
hierarchical_section_title: 7th G7 summit / Leaders at the summit
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo from the G-7 Economic Summit in Ottawa. Leaders at the Chateau Montebello in Montebello, Quebec, Canada (from left to right: Gaston Thorn, Zenko Suzuki, Helmut Schmidt, Ronald Reagan, Pierre Trudeau, Francois Mitterrand, Margaret Thatcher, Giovanni Spadolini).
context_page_description: The 7th G7 Summit was called the Ottawa Summit, and was held in Montebello, Quebec, Canada and nearby Ottawa between July 20 and 21, 1981. The venue for the summit meetings was the Château Montebello.
  The Group of Seven was an unofficial forum which brought together the heads of the richest industrialized countries: France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and the President of the European Commission. 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 West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt as they conceived the first Group of Six summit in 1975.
context_section_description: The G7 is an unofficial annual forum for the leaders of Canada, the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
  The 7th G7 summit was the first summit for French President François Mitterrand, Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini, Japanese Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki and U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
caption: Leaders at the Chateau Montebello in Montebello, Quebec, Canada.  From left to right: Gaston Thorn, Zenko Suzuki, Helmut Schmidt, Ronald Reagan, Pierre Trudeau, François Mitterrand, Margaret Thatcher, Giovanni Spadolini.