14th G7 summit

: (left to right) Jacques Delors, Ciriaco De Mita, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Brian Mulroney, François Mitterrand, Helmut Kohl, and Noboru Takeshita 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. It was also the first and only summit for Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. Participants These summit participants are the current "core members" of the international forum: ==Issues==

The summit was intended as a venue for resolving differences among its members. As a practical matter, the summit was also conceived as an opportunity for its members to give each other mutual encouragement in the face of difficult economic decisions. Issues which were discussed at this summit included: • International Economic Policy Cooperation • Multilateral Trading System / Uruguay Round • Newly Industrialized Economies • Developing Countries and Debt • Environment • Future Summits • Other Issues • Annex on Structural Reform ==Criticism==

The Toronto-based Canadian Organization for the Rights of Prostitutes issued a number of press releases leading up to the economic summit pointing out that the local vice squads were tasked with cleaning up the city streets through a coordinated crackdown on sex workers. This crackdown and economic summit took place in Toronto amidst the tumultuous restructuring of the Canadian Criminal Code to outlaw commercial sex by criminalizing communication for the purpose of obtaining commercial sexual services in public. Similar crackdowns against other street-involved communities (drug users, the homeless, gays and lesbians, transgender people) continue today in the lead up to large economic summits like the G7, IMF, World Bank as well as sporting events like the World Cup, the Olympics, and Formula One. ==Gallery of participating leaders==

Core G7 participants File:Brian Mulroney in 1984 (cropped).jpg| CanadaBrian Mulroney,Prime Minister (Host) File:President François Mitterrand in 1983.jpg| FranceFrançois Mitterrand,President File:Helmut Kohl (1996) cropped.jpg| West GermanyHelmut Kohl,Chancellor File:Ciriaco De Mita (X).jpg| ItalyCiriaco De Mita,Prime Minister File:Noboru Takeshita 19871106.jpg| JapanNoboru Takeshita,Prime Minister File:Margaret Thatcher (1983).jpg| United KingdomMargaret Thatcher,Prime Minister File:Ronald Reagan 1985 presidential portrait (cropped).jpg| United States Ronald Reagan, President File:Jacques Delors (cropped).jpg| European UnionJacques Delors,Commission President ==See also==