General Knowledge / List of Important Summits

Asummit / summit meeting is an international meeting ofheads of state/ government, usually with considerable media exposure, tight security, and a prearrangedagenda.

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)
· CherchellConference (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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