10th G7 summit

10th G7 summit
Lancaster House in London
Host country	United Kingdom
Dates	June 7–9, 1984
Follows	9th G7 summit
Precedes	11th G7 summit

The 10th G7 Summit was held in London, England, United Kingdom from June 7 to June 9, 1984. The venue for the summit meetings was Lancaster House in London.

The Group of Seven (G7) 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 (since 1976) and the President of the European Commission (starting officially in 1981). 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 (G6) summit in 1975.

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 10th G7 summit was the first summit for Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi. It was also the last summit for Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

These summit participants are the current "core members" of the international forum:

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: