G20
Summit – a look
2015
G20 Summit – an overview:
·
2015 G-20 Antalya summit was the tenth
meeting of the G-20 heads of government
·
Venue: Regnum Carya Hotel Convention
Centre, Antalya (Turkey)
·
2014 Summit was held at Brisbane
(Australia)
·
2016 Summit will be held at Hangzhou
(China)
·
2017 Summit will be held at Germany
·
2018 Summit will be held at India
·
French President Mr. François Hollande
did not attend the event due to the November 2015 Paris attacks and sent
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius as his representative.
·
Invited Guests of 2015 G20 Summit:
Ø Spain,
Prime Minister
Ø Azerbaijan,
President
Ø Malaysia,
Prime Minister
Ø Senegal,
President
Ø Singapore,
Prime Minister
Ø Zimbabwe,
President
Countries
in G20:
·
An international forum for the
governments and central bank governors from 20 major economies
·
19 individual Countries + European
Union (EU)
·
Founded in 1999
·
G20 economies account for around 85%
of the World's GDP and 80% of World trade and 2/3rd of World's population
·
The members —
(01)Argentina (02) Australia
(03)
Brazil (04)
Canada
(05)
China (06)
France
(07)
Germany (08)
India
(09)
Indonesia (10)
Italy
(11)
Japan (12)
South Korea
(13)
Mexico (14)
Russia
(15)
Saudi Arabia (16)
South Africa
(17)
Turkey (18)
United Kingdom
(19)
United States (20)
European Union (EU)
Permanent
Guest Invitations:
(1)
African Union (2)
ASEAN
(3)
ILO (4)
IMF
(5)
Spain (6)
UN
(7)
World Bank (8)
WTO
G20 Summits:
G20
Summits – an overview
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#
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Year
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Host
City
|
Country
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1
|
2008
|
Washington D C
|
USA
|
2
|
2009
|
London
|
UK
|
3
|
2009
|
Pittsburgh
|
USA
|
4
|
2010
|
Toronto
|
Canada
|
5
|
2010
|
Seoul
|
South Korea
|
6
|
2011
|
Cannes
|
France
|
7
|
2012
|
Los Cabos
|
Mexico
|
8
|
2013
|
St. Petersburg
|
Russia
|
9
|
2014
|
Brisbane
|
Australia
|
10
|
2015
|
Antalya
|
Turkey
|
11
|
2016
|
Hangzhou
|
China
|
12
|
2017
|
Germany
|
|
13
|
2018
|
India
|
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G20
will also host the meeting of Finance Ministers of the countries and Central
Bank Governors meeting (in India, it is called as RBI); sometimes yearly once
or more than one time in a year
·
India hosted G20 Ministerial Meeting
in 2002 at New Delhi
·
In 2015, it was held at Istanbul in
Turkey (Feb 2015)
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