page_title: 23rd G8 summit
section_title: Priorities
hierarchical_section_title: 23rd G8 summit / Priorities
caption_attribution_description: English: Central Library, Denver Public Library Español: Biblioteca Central, Biblioteca Pública de Denver
context_page_description: The 23rd G8 summit was held on June 20–22, 1997 in Denver, Colorado, United States. The venue was the newly constructed Denver Public Library in downtown Denver. The locations of previous G8 summits to have been hosted by the United States include: San Juan, Puerto Rico, Williamsburg, Virginia, and Houston, Texas.
  The Group of Seven was an unofficial forum which brought together the heads of the richest industrialized countries: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada starting in 1976. The G8, meeting for the first time in 1997, was formed with the addition of Russia. In addition, the President of the European Commission has been formally included in summits since 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 initial summit of the Group of Six in 1975.
context_section_description: Traditionally, the host country of the G8 summit sets the agenda for negotiations, which take place primarily amongst multi-national civil servants in the weeks before the summit itself, leading to a joint declaration which all countries can agree to sign.
caption: The newly built Denver Public Library.
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "Sierra Exif JPEG", "Image Make": "TOSHIBA", "Image Model": "PDRM70", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Digital Camera PDRM70 Ver1.32", "Image DateTime": "2006:01:02 13:50:47", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image ExifOffset": "246", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "760", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "5695", "Thumbnail YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/120", "EXIF FNumber": "8", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "100", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0210", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2006:01:02 13:05:33", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2006:01:02 13:05:33", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "69/10", "EXIF ApertureValue": "6", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "2", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1452", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "936", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "612", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera"}