General Knowledge / Summits In India

A summit / summit meeting is an international meeting of heads of state / Government, usually with considerable media exposure, tight security, and a prearranged agenda. Nowadays, international summits are the most common expression for global governance.

World War II conferences
• U.S.–British Staff Conference (ABC–1) (January 29 – March 27, 1941)
• Atlantic Conference (August 9–12, 1941)
• Moscow Conference (September 29 – October 1, 1941)
• Arcadia Conference (December 22, 1941 – January 14, 1942)
• Second Washington Conference (June 20–25, 1942)
• Second Moscow Conference (August 12–19, 1942)
• Cherchell Conference (October 21–22, 1942)
• Casablanca Conference (January 14–24, 1943)
• Bermuda Conference (April 19, 1943)
• Third Washington Conference (May 12–27, 1943)
• Quebec Conference (August 17–24, 1943)
• Third Moscow Conference (October 18 – November 1, 1943)
• Cairo Conference (November 22 – November 26, 1943)
• Tehran Conference (November 28 – December 1, 1943)
• Second Cairo Conference (December 4–6, 1943)
• Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference (May 1–16, 1944)
• United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (Bretton Woods) (July 1–15, 1944)
• Dumbarton Oaks Conference (August 21–29, 1944)
• Second Quebec Conference (September 12–16, 1944)
• Fourth Moscow Conference (October 9, 1944)
• Malta Conference (January 30 – February 2, 1945)
• Yalta Conference (February 4–11, 1945)
• United Nations Conference on International Organization (April 25 – June 26, 1945)
• Potsdam Conference (July 17 – August 2, 1945)

Arab League summits
• 1974 – Rabat summit conference • 2002 – Beirut Summit
Earth Summits
• 1992 – Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 2002 – Earth Summit, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 2012 – Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

G–summits Group of Six (G6), heads of government
• 1975 – 1st G6 summit, Château de Rambouillet

Group of Seven (G7), heads of government
• 1976 – 2nd G7 summit, San Juan
• 1977 – 3rd G7 summit, London
• 1978 – 4th G7 summit, Bonn
• 1979 – 5th G7 summit, Tokyo
• 1980 – 6th G7 summit, Venice
• 1981 – 7th G7 summit, Montebello
• 1982 – 8th G7 summit, Versailles
• 1983 – 9th G7 summit, Williamsburg
• 1984 – 10th G7 summit, London • 1985 – 11th G7 summit, Bonn
• 1986 – 12th G7 summit, Tokyo
• 1987 – 13th G7 summit, Venice
• 1988 – 14th G7 summit, Toronto
• 1989 – 15th G7 summit, Grande Arche
• 1990 – 16th G7 summit, Houston
• 1991 – 17th G7 summit, London
• 1992 – 18th G7 summit, Munich
• 1993 – 19th G7 summit, Tokyo
• 1994 – 20th G7 summit, Naples
• 1995 – 21st G7 summit, Halifax
• 1996 – 22nd G7 summit, Lyon

Group of Eight (G8), heads of government
• 1997 – 23rd G8 summit, Denver
• 1998 – 24th G8 summit, Birmingham
• 1999 – 25th G8 summit, Cologne
• 2000 – 26th G8 summit, Okinawa
• 2001 – 27th G8 summit, Genoa
• 2002 – 28th G8 summit, Kananaskis
• 2003 – 29th G8 summit, Évian-les-Bains
• 2004 – 30th G8 summit, Sea Island
• 2005 – 31st G8 summit, Gleneagles
• 2006 – 32nd G8 summit, Saint Petersburg
• 2007 – 33rd G8 summit, Heiligendamm
• 2008 – 34th G8 summit, Tōyako
• 2009 – 35th G8 summit, L'Aquila, Abruzzo
• 2010 – 36th G8 summit, Huntsville
• 2011 – 37th G8 summit, Deauville
• 2012 – 38th G8 summit, Camp David, Maryland
• 2013 – 39th G8 summit, Lough Erne in County Fermanagh

Group of Seven (G7), heads of government
• 2014 – 40th G7 summit, Brussels
• 2015 – 41st G7 summit, Schloss Elmau, Bavaria
• 2016 – 42nd G7 summit, Shima, Mie Prefecture
• 2017 – 43rd G7 summit, Taormina, Sicily
• 2018 – 44th G7 summit, La Malbaie, Quebec

Group of Twenty, heads of government
• 2008 G-20 Washington summit
• 2009 G-20 London summit
• 2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summit
• 2010 G-20 Toronto summit
• 2010 G-20 Seoul summit
• 2011 G-20 Cannes summit
• 2012 G-20 Los Cabos Summit
• 2013 G-20 Saint Petersburg summit
• 2014 G-20 Brisbane summit
• 2015 G-20 Antalya summit
• 2016 G-20 Hangzhou summit
• 2017 G-20 Hamburg summit
• 2018 G-20 Buenos Aires summit
• 2019 G-20 Osaka summit

European summits
•1969 – The Hague: Foreign policy and enlargement.
•1974 – Paris: Creation of the Council.
•1985 – Milan: Initiate IGC leading to the Single European Act.
•1991 – Maastricht': Agreement on the Maastricht Treaty.
•1997 – Amsterdam: Agreement on the Amsterdam Treaty.
•1998 – Brussels: Selected member states to adopt the euro.
•1999 – Cologne: Declaration on military forces.
•1999 – Tampere: Institutional reform
•2000 – Lisbon: Lisbon Strategy
•2002 – Copenhagen: Agreement for May 2004 enlargement.
•2007 – Lisbon: Agreement on the Lisbon Treaty.

Inter-Korean summits
•2000 – 1st Korean summit
•2007 – 2nd Korean summit
•2018 – April 2018 inter-Korean summit
•2018 – May 2018 inter-Korean summit
•2018 – September 2018 inter-Korean summit

Millennium Development Goals
•2000 – Millennium Summit, New York City
•2005 – 2005 World Summit, New York City
South American Summits
•2000 – 2000 South American Summit, Brasília
•2002 – South American Summit, Guayaquil
•2004 – 2004 South American Summit, Cuzco, Peru

Summits of the Americas
•1994 – 1st Summit of the Americas at Miami in the United States.
•1996—Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development at Santa Cruz de la Sierra in Bolivia.
•1998 – 2nd Summit of the Americas at Santiago in Chile.
•2001 – 3rd Summit of the Americas, in Quebec City, Canada.
•2004 – Monterrey Special Summit of the Americas at Monterrey in Mexico.
•2005 – 4th Summit of the Americas at Mar del Plata in Argentina.
•2009 – 5th Summit of the Americas at Port-of-Spain in Trinidad and Tobago.
•2012 – 6th Summit of the Americas at Cartagena in Colombia.
•2015 – 7th Summit of the Americas at Panama City in Panama.
•2018 – 8th Summit of the Americas at Lima in Peru.

UN International conferences on Afghanistan
•2001 – International Conference on Afghanistan in Bonn
•2004 – International Conference on Afghanistan in Berlin
•2006 – International Conference on Afghanistan in London
•2007 – International Conference on the Rule of Law in Afghanistan in Rome
•2008 – International Conference on Afghanistan in Paris
•2009 – International Conference on Afghanistan in Moscow
•2009 – International Conference on Afghanistan in The Hague
•2010 – International Conference on Afghanistan in London

Soviet Union–United States summits
• Geneva Summit, July 18–23, 1955
• Washington and Camp David Summit, September 15, 26–27, 1959 • Paris Summit, May 16–17, 1960 • Vienna Summit, June 3–4, 1961 • Glassboro Summit Conference, June 23 and 25, 1967
• Moscow summit (SALT I), May 22–30, 1972
• Washington D.C., June 18–25, 1973
• Moscow summit, June 28 – July 3, 1974
• Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control, November 23–24, 1974
• Helsinki summit, July 30 and August 2, 1975
• Vienna summit (SALT II), June 15–18, 1979
• Geneva Summit, November 19–21, 1985
• Reykjavík Summit, October 10–12, 1986
• Washington Summit, December 7–10, 1987
• Moscow Summit, May 29 – June 1, 1988
• New York Summit, December 7, 1988
• Malta Summit, December 2–3, 1989
• Washington D.C., May 30 – June 3, 1990
• Helsinki, September 9, 1990
• Paris Summit, November 19, 1990
• London Summit, July 17, 1991
• Moscow Summit (START I), July 30–31, 1991
• Madrid Summit, October 29–30, 1991

Russia–United States summits
•2001 – Slovenia Summit 2001
•2005 – Slovakia Summit 2005
•2018 – Russia–United States summit

Miscellaneous
• 1520 – Field of the Cloth of Gold
• 1955 – Geneva Summit
• 1967 – Glassboro Summit Conference
• 1985 – Shamrock Summit
• 1986 – Reykjavík Summit
• 1989 – Malta Summit
• 1990 – World Summit for Children
• 2001 – Agra summit
• 2001 – Taba summit
• 2000 – 2000 Camp David Summit
• 2003–2005 – World Summit on the Information Society
• 2005 – Sharm el-Sheikh Summit of 2005
• 2015 – Valletta Summit on Migration
• 2017 – 2017 Riyadh summit
• 2018 – 2018 North Korea–United States Singapore Summit
• 2019 – 2019 North Korea–United States Hanoi Summit



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