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No comprehensive declaration of final declaration at G7 summit is planned
Common conclusions on the major issues of world politics are actually an integral part of the G7 summit. Not in Canada this year. Who is that is quite clear.
The heads of state and government of the G7 group of leading democratic business powers want to do without a comprehensive joint declaration at their first summit with US President Donald Trump. The Canadian hosts assumed that the meeting in the Rocky Mountains from Sunday to Tuesday instead will only have “selected explanations on specific topics”, it was said from German government circles in Berlin.
No explanations of Ukraine and Gaza
Specifically, migration, artificial intelligence, quantum technology, forest fires and rare raw materials were specified. In contrast, there should also be a common document for the wars in Ukraine and in the Gaza Strip, as well as on climate change or development aid.
In addition to Canada, the G7 belong to the USA, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy and Japan. Since the exclusion of Russia because of the Annexion Crimea in 2014, she sees itself as a community of value of the great western democracies. Since Trump took office, however, there have been massive differences between the United States and the other six members, among other things, on topics such as the Ukraine War, the fight against climate change and world trade.
In 2018 Trump subsequently withdrew his approval
At this year’s G7 summit there will be no comprehensive declaration of final declaration for the first time since 2018. Even then, Trump was a US President and the host Canada. The summit participants agreed on a document, but Trump pulled his consent on the return journey via Twitter (today X).
A year later in France there was again a declaration of final, but it was only one page long. Under Trump’s successor Joe Biden, the G7 then returned to the previously usual comprehensive and detailed summit explanations.
dpa
Source: Stern
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