Important Summits of the World in 2014-15

6th BRICS summit:

It was hosted by Brazil, as the first host country of the current five-year summit cycle. Host city was Fortaleza. Argentine President Cristina Kirchner was a special guest of the summit.  

Date- 14 July 2014–16 July 2014

Core BRICS members

Brazil —- Dilma Rousseff (President)

Russia —— Vladimir Putin (President)

India ——- Narendra Modi (Prime Minister)

China ——- Xi Jinping (President)

South Africa ——– Jacob Zuma (President)

Business 20 (B20) Australia Summit:

Held in – Sydney  

On- 18 July 2014

Chaired by- Richard Goyder, Managing Director and CEO of Wesfarmers. The business

leaders of G20 met in this summit.

SAARC Monsoon Initiative Programme National Working Group

Organised in – Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, Held on – 20 June 2014

The monsoon initiative is the part of Thimphu Statement on Climate Change adopted at  the16th SAARC summit in Thimphu in 2010.

Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) – Japan Conference

Held in – Tokyo  

Date- 17 June 2014

The two-day Conference was hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.

ATOMEXPO-2014 Nuclear Energy Forum

Date- 9 to 11 June 2014   

Held in – Moscow

The first ATOMEXPO was held in 2009 and is an initiative of Russia’s State Nuclear Energy  Corporation Rosatom.

40th G-7 summit 2014

Held in- Brussels

Date- 4 June 2014 – 5 June 2014

It was the first time that the EU hosted a G7 summit.

Originally, a G8 summit was scheduled to take place in Sochi (Russia) in early June 2014 under a Russian presidency. Due to the Russian Federation’s violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, the G7 leaders decided to meet in Brussels on 4-5 June 2014 in the G7 format instead.

BIMSTEC Summit

3rd BIMSTEC summit 2014: Nay Pyi Taw (Myanmar)

4th BIMSTEC summit will be held in Nepal.

Nuclear Security Summit:-

• 2nd Summit 2012 – Seoul, South Korea.
• 3rd Summit 2014 – Hague, Netherland
• 4th Summit 2016 – United States

G 8 Summit :-

• 39th Summit 2013: United Kingdom. (Northern Ireland)
• G‐8 Countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Britain and the US.
• 40th G‐7 summit 2014 held at Brussels.

G 20 Summit:-

• G‐20 meeting (2014) of Finance ministers and central bank governors held in Sydney (Australia).
• G20 Leaders Summit (2014) will be held in Brisbane, Queensland Australia, in November 2014.

SAARC Summit :-

• 3rd SAARC ministerial meet on poverty alleviation 2013 Kathmandu (Nepal)
• 18th SAARC Summit 2014‐ Kathmandu (proposed)

NATO Summit :‐

• NATO Summit 2014 will be held in Britain. (Britain last hosted the summit in 1990, when Margret Thatcher was Prime Minister)

IBSA Summit:-

• India will host the next summit of IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa) in New Delhi in 2015.

 OTHERS IMPORTANT SUMMITS

• 18th BASIC Ministerial Meeting held in New Delhi.

          BASIC – (Brazil, South Africa, India and China)

          Note : 17th Meeting on Climate Change was held in Hanzghou, China

• ASEAN foreign-minister-meeting held in Myanmar.

• Fifth Indo-US Strategic Dialogue held in New Delhi during which the two sides discussed “transformativeinitiatives” in key areas of security and energy.

• 3rd India-Africa Summit will be held in New Delhi.

• 6th International Nuclear Energy Forum ATOMEXPO-2014 held in Moscow.

• World Economic Forum 2014: held in Abuja (Nigeria). Bharti Enterprises founder and Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal co– chair this year’s edition of the World Economic Forum on  Africa.

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