IMPORTANT SUMMITS

IMPORTANT SUMMITS

1.BRICS summit ( 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.
● Next 7th BRICS Summit to be held in
Ufa, Russia
2. BIMSTEC Summit :-
● 3rd BIMSTEC summit 2014: Nay Pyi Taw
(Myanmar)
● 4th BIMSTEC summit will be held in
Nepal.
3. Nuclear security summit :-
● 2nd Summit 2012 – Seoul, South Korea.
● 3rd Summit 2014 - Hague, Netherland
● 4th Summit 2016 - United States
4.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.
5. 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.
6. SAARC Summit :-
● 3rd SAARC ministerial meet on poverty
alleviation 2013 Kathmandu (Nepal)
● 18th SAARC Summit 2014‐ Kathmandu
(proposed)
7. NATO Summit :‐
● NATO Summit 2014 will be held in
Britain. (Britain last hosted the summit in
1990, when Margret Thatcher was Prime
Minister).
8. IBSA Summit :-
● India will host the next summit of IBSA
(India, Brazil, South Africa) in New Delhi
in 2015.
# OTHERS_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 “transformative
initiatives” 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.