May 7, 2021
Aziz Idris
Minister of Foreign Affairs II Dato Seri Setia Awang Haji Erywan bin Pehin Datu Pekerma Jaya Haji Mohd Yusof met with his United Kingdom (UK) counterpart Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab during the Group of Seven (G7) Foreign and Development Ministers’ meeting in London yesterday.
This was the first time that a representative from ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) was invited to attend a G7 foreign ministers’ meeting.
The UK’s invitation to the ASEAN Chair to attend the G7 meeting signals the UK’s emphasis on a closer alignment with the Indo-Pacific region, as outlined in the UK’s
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LONDON The Group of Seven scolded both China and Russia on Wednesday, casting the Kremlin as malicious and Beijing as a bully, and expressed support for Taiwan and Ukraine.
Founded in 1975 as a forum for the West’s richest nations to discuss crises such as the OPEC oil embargo, the G-7 this week addressed what it perceives as the biggest current threats: China, Russia and the coronavirus pandemic.
G-7 foreign ministers, in a 12,400-word communique, said Russia was trying to undermine democracies and threatening Ukraine while the Chinese communist regime was guilty of human rights abuses and of using its economic clout to bully others.