G7 pushes solidarity to tackle global threats
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LONDON, May 4, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – G7 foreign ministers meet in London for their first face-to-face talks in more than two years on Tuesday, with calls for urgent joined-up action to tackle the most pressing global threats.
China, Myanmar, Libya, Syria and Russia are all on the formal agenda as the ministers from the club of wealthy democracies prepare for a leaders’ meeting in Cornwall, southwest England, next month.
They will also discuss violence in Ethiopia, Iran and North Korea, Somalia, the Sahel and western Balkans, as part of what London said were “pressing geopolitical issues that threaten to undermine democracy, freedoms and human rights”.
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LONDON (Reuters) -The Group of Seven rich democracies will on Tuesday discuss ways of countering challenges from China and Russia without trying to contain Beijing or escalate tension with the Kremlin, two of its top diplomats said.
Founded in 1975 as a forum for the West’s richest nations to discuss crises such as the OPEC oil embargo, the G7 is debating responses to the two vast and increasingly assertive countries as well as the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change.
“It is not our purpose to try to contain China or to hold China down,” U.S. President Joe Biden’s secretary of state, Antony Blinken told reporters on Monday ahead of the first in-person G7 foreign ministers meeting since 2019.
G7 seeks in London responses to global threats
G7 seeks in London responses to global threats
London, May 4 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministers and ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) began this Tuesday a two-day face-to-face meeting in London to address the global challenges the bloc of industrialized nations believes that their democracies are threatened. According to Britain s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, the meeting, the first to be held in person since 2019 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, will be an opportunity to unite open and democratic societies, and demonstrate unity in the face of growing threats.
Among the issues to be addressed will be the relationships with Russia, China, and Iran, the situation in Myanmar after the February coup, violence in Ethiopia and the war in Syria.
G7 Foreign Ministers are discussing geopolitical threats that undermine "democracy, freedoms, and human rights"on Tuesday in their 1st meeting since 2019.
G-7 Nations Vow to End Syrian War, Top US Diplomat Says
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05 May 2021, 04:35 GMT+10
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that the Group of 7 industrialized nations have vowed to end the 10-year civil war in Syria.
My @G7 counterparts and I reaffirmed our commitment to a political resolution for ending the conflict in Syria, Blinken tweeted as he and other G-7 members attended their first in-person meetings in two years.
The Syrian conflict was among a range of world issues to be discussed by foreign ministers representing the G-7 nations during meetings in London. Others include relations with China and Russia, the coup in Myanmar, and the situation in Afghanistan.