Important International Summits

• Countries (5)- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa
• 9th BRICS Summit 2017 – Xiamen, China

• The East Asia Summit (EAS) is a forum held annually in Starting 16 countries in the East Asian, Southeast Asian and South Asian regions.
• Membership expanded to 18 countries including the United States and Russia at the Sixth EAS in 2011.
• EAS meetings are held after annual ASEAN leaders’ meetings.
• The first summit was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 14 December 2005.
• 12th East Asia Summit 2017 – Pasay, Laos

• Total Countries– 21
• HQ– Singapore

• 29th APEC Summit 2017 – Vietnam, Hanoi
• 30^th APEC Summit 2018 – Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

• HQ– Nepal
• Secretary General– Arjun Bahadur Thapa
• Indian Representative at SAARC– Lakshmi Savithri
• Countries (8)– Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

• 19th SAARC Summit 2016 – Islamabad, Pakistan
• 20th SAARC Summit 2018- Islamabad Pakistan

• HQ- Jakarta, Indonesia
• Total Countries– 10
• Secretary General– Le Luong Minh (Vietnam)

• INDIA IS NOT IN ASEAN COUNTRIES.
• 30th ASEAN Summit 2017 – Pasay, Philippines
• 31th ASEAN Summit 2017 Pasay, Philippines
• 32 & 33 – 2018 – Singapore

• IBSA Dialogue Forum – India, Brazil, South Africa.
• 7th IBSA Summit 2015 – New Delhi, India

• The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is an international organisation involving a group of countries in South Asia and South East Asia.
• These are: Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan and Nepal.
• 4th BIMSTEC Summit 2015 – Nepal

• Group of Seven Countries – France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada.
• 42nd G8 Summit 2016 – Shima, Japan
• 43rd G8 Summit 2017 – Italy
• 44^th G7 Summit 2018 – Canada

The Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors is a group of finance ministers and central bank governors from 20 major economies: 19 countries plus the European Union, which is represented by the President of the European Council and by the European Central Bank.

Chairperson- Mauricio Macri, Total Countries- 20 Countries= BRICS + G7 + Argentina, Australia, Indonesia, Mexico, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Turkey

• 11th G 20 Meeting 2016 – Hangzhou, China
• 12th G 20 Meeting 2017 – Germany
• 13th G 20 Meeting 2018 – Buenos Aires (Argentina)

•  OPEC – Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
• 7th International OPEC – Veinna , Austria

• NATO – North Atlantic treaty Organization
• HQ- Brussels ,Belgium
• Members -28
• Secretary General – Jens Stoltenberg

• NATO Summit 2018 – Brussels, Belgium

• Organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
• Earth Hour 2018 was on March 24, from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm

•  NAM Summit Full Form – Non Allied Moment
• It has 120+2 (Two nations namely Azerbaijan Republic and Fiji) members.
• 17th NAM summit 2016 was held in Caracas, Venezuela .
• This Time Vice president Of India Hamid Ansari represented India In NAM 2016
• NAM 2019 Summit will be held in Azerbaijan

• CHOGM Full Form – CommonWealth Heads of Government Meeting
• Held After Gap of Every Two years
• CHOGM 2018: London (Initially Vanuatu, shifted because of Cyclon Pam
• In 2020 CHOGM Meeting will be held In – Rwanda

• Development to Trans-shipment hub.

• To help the “ASEAN community” [Similar to European Union. will be setup in 2015.]