IMPORTANT SUMMITS 2014 (FULL DETAILS) ---------------------------------------------

IMPORTANT SUMMITS 2014 (FULL DETAILS)
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1. BRICS summit
Country: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South‐Africa.
5th Summit 2013 : (Durban) South Africa:
6th BRICS Summit 2014: to be held in Fortaleza,
Brazil from 15‐17 July 2014.
2. Nuclear security summit
2nd Summit 2012 – Seoul, South Korea. 3rd
Summit 2014 : Hague, Netherland 4th Summit
2016: United States
3. 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.
Note: It was the first time that the EU hosted a G7
summit. The summit is jointly represented by the
European Council President Herman van Rompuy
and the European Commission President.
Note: 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.
4. 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.
5. SAARC Summit:
3rd SAARC ministerial meet on poverty alleviation
2013 – Kathmandu (Nepal) 18th SAARC Summit
2014‐ Kathmandu (proposed)
6. NATO Summit‐ NATO Summit 2014 will be held
in Britain. (Britain last hosted the summit in 1990,
when Margret Thatcher was Prime Minister).
7. BIMSTEC Summit
3rd BIMSTEC summit 2014: Nay Pyi Taw
(Myanmar) 4th BIMSTEC summit will be held in
Nepal.
Note: BIMSTEC (Bay of Bangal Initiative for
Multisectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation)
BIMSTEC includes 7 countries: Bangladesh, India,
Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan and Nepal
and aims to create cooperation in multiple sectors
including trade, investment and energy.
8. NAM Summit:
16th Summit 2013: Tehran, Iran
17th Summit2015 ‐ Caracas (Venezuela)
Note: Two nations, namely Azerbaijan Republic and
Fiji, were accepted as the new members of the
organization.
New Member
United Nation – South Sudan new member
country . Total– 193 members
WTO –Tajikistan new member country. Total – 159
members.
World Bank & IMF – South Sudan new member
country. Total– 188 members
European Union – Croatia new member country.
Total– 28
9. 6th International Nuclear Energy Forum
ATOMEXPO‐2014 held in Moscow
10. 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.
11. India, Sri Lanka and Maldives held National
Security Advisor‐level meeting on maritime security
cooperation in New Delhi.
12. World Telecommunications Development
Conference held in Dubai.
13. The Green Economy Summit held in Dubai.
14. Arab Summit 2014: Kuwait host the Arab
summit for the first time
15. The 9th WTO Ministerial Conference was
concluded on 6 December 2013 at Bali, Indonesia.
16. 12th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2014 held in New
Delhi. This year's theme is "Engaging Diaspora:
Connecting Acro