International Summits in 2015 List - PDF

Suresh Prabhu appointed as PM Narendra Modi’s Sherpa ( a senior official responsible for preparing the agenda for leaders to be considered during the summit.) for the Group of 20 annual Summit 2014.
G20 Leaders Summit (2015) will be held in Antalya, (Turkey).
G-20 meeting (2015) of Finance ministers and central bank governors will be held in Peru (Lima).
G-20 Labour and Employment Ministerial meet will be held in Ankara (Turkey)
14th G-20 Summit 2015 – Australia
16th G-20 Summit 2016 – China

G-20 Summit 2014 was held in Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland,Australia lie on 15-16 Nov , 2014 .
It was focused on Economic concerns, highlights plans to increase trade and reduce poverty.
It should be noted that the G-20 membership comprises a mix of world's largest advanced and emerging economies representing about two-thirds of the world's population, 85% of global Gross Domestic Product and over 75% of global trade.
It's members are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada , China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, The United Kingdom, The United States and the European Union.
Raising the pitch on the Black Money issue, Mr. Modi in his intervention at the summit of the Group of 20, he called for close global co-ordination to address the challenge posed by it.The new standard would be instrumental in getting information relating to unaccounted money hoarded abroad and enable its eventual repatriation, Mr. Modi said, utilising the forum of G20, which accounts for 85% per cent of world's GDP.
Vladimir Putin's early exit from the G20 summit in Australia after an icy reception from world leaders may further stoke Russia-West tensions and lead to renewed fighting in Ukraine.

It was the first time that the EU hosted a G7 summit.
40th G8(G7) summit held at Brussels which does not include Russia, because of the Crimean. These 7 leaders came together to figure out how to deal with Russia who had just exerted power to annex Crimea from Ukraine and how they are going to coerce or persuade Russia to stop Expanding.
G-8 Countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Britain and the US

7th BRICS Summit (2015) held in Ufa,Russia
BRCIS stands for Brazil,Russia,India,China and South-Africa
Ufa is the capital city of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, and the industrial, economic, scientific and cultural centre of the republic.

The 25th ASEAN(Association of South-East Asian Nations) summit was held in Nay Pyi Taw, capital of Myanmar on Nov 11-12, 2014 and the East Asia Summit was held at the same venue on November 13,2014.

East Asia Summit

The 9th East Asia Summit (EAS) was held in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar on 13 Nov 2014.
The Summit was chaired by Myanmar's President U Thein Sein, President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and attended by the Heads of State/Government of ASEAN Member States, Australia, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of India, Japan , the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, the Russian Federation and the United States of America.

India host the summit of IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa) in New Delhi in 2015.

The two-day 18th South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC) summit held at Kathmandu from 26th Nov to 27th Nov with an agenda to improve connectivity among member states for boosting trade, collectively fighting the poverty and illiteracy.
The SAARC has eight members : Afganistan, bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri-Lanka with permanent headquarters at Kathmandu,Nepal.
The eight members signed the SAARC Framework on Energy (Electricity) Co-operation to facilitate inter country trading of electricity.
Theme : 'Deeper Regional Integration for Peace and Prosperity'
New Chairman of SAARC : Mr. Sushil Koirala, Prime Minister of Nepal.
The 19th SAARC summit will be held in 2016 in Islamabad,Pakistan.

Five Proposals by India at SAARC

SAARC Business traveler card for all member countries
Easy visa for medical treatment visits
Online courses and e library for South Asian students
To provide five - in - one vaccine for children and support for polio free all countries
To provide funds for TB-HIV laboratory

BIMSTECH (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multisectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation Countries )
It has 8 members Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan, Nepal
BIMSTECH Summit 2014 was held in Nay Pyi Taw (Myanmar)
4th BIMSTEC Summit will be held in Nepal.

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has 28 member with the purpose to safeguard the freedom and security of its members through political and military means.
Head Office - Brussels, Belgium, Chief or Secretary General : Jens Stoltenberg
It was the first NATO summit since Chicago in 2012,(Britain last hosted the summit in 1990, when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister )

The Neitherland hosted the 3rd Nuclear Summit in the Hague with an aim of summit to reducing the amount of dangerous and improving the security for nuclear material and radio active source.
The first Nuclear Summit was held in Washington.
4th Nuclear Summit 2016 will held in United States.