Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles
available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The 22nd G7
Summit was held at the in Lyon, France between June 27 and 29, 1996. The
venue for this summit meeting was the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon
(Musée d'art Contemporain de Lyon). The locations of previous summits to
have been hosted by France include: Rambouillet (1975), Versailles
(1982) and Paris (1989). The Group of Seven (G7) was an unofficial forum
which brought together the heads of the richest industrialized
countries: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United
States, Canada (since 1976) and the President of the European Commission
(starting officially in 1981).
