Description
1990 Houston Texas World Economic Summit Bronze Medal. 62 mm diameter with no issues or wear. It came to me in this box which is just a generic box, came with original paper shown. History for the Preservationist: The 1990 G-7 Economic Summit medal. The insignia on medal includes the seven countries participating (USA, Canada, France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom) with its corresponding flag, as well as the CEC and the flag of Europe. The symbol of a star is in the center of the medal.The 16th G7 Summit was held at Houston between July 9 and 11, 1990. The venue for the summit meetings was the campus of Rice University and other locations nearby in the Houston Museum District.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. tw248
