Tag: G7

• Wednesday, July 31st 2024 - 20:30 UTC

  International community underlines lack of transparency in Venezuelan elections

  

  The international community keeps harboring doubts as to the authenticity of the rsults for the Venezuelan presidential elections announced in Caracas by the National Electoral Council (CNE) on Sunday. A joint statement was issued Wednesday in this regard by the foreign ministers of the seven countries making up the G7, arguably the strongest nations from an economic viewpoint which also enforce democratic principles while the Carter Center, one of the observers participating in the process, admitted it could not be considered “democratic.”

• Monday, June 10th 2024 - 08:30 UTC

  Lula attending G7 Summit this week

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will be attending this week's G7 Summit in Borgo Egnazia at the invitation of Prime Minister Georgia Meloni with a mission to focus on social inclusion and climate change, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Monday, May 22nd 2023 - 09:27 UTC

  No Lula-Zelensky meeting in Hiroshima after all

  

  In the end, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva did not get together with his Ukrainian colleague Volodymyr Zelensky during the weekend as they were both attending the G7 Summit in Hiroshima as guests. “I think he was disappointed,” Zelensky said Sunday in an ironic tone. The meeting was officially requested by Ukraine on Friday (19/5).

• Saturday, May 20th 2023 - 11:26 UTC

  G7 Summit in Hiroshima: Stronger sanctions declared against Russia, Zelensky's presence expected

  

  The leaders of the Group of Seven, G7, major industrial countries on Friday vowed to tighten sanctions on Russia. During talks in the Japanese city of Hiroshima, they vowed: “to stand together against Russia's illegal, unjustifiable, and unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine.”

• Saturday, May 20th 2023 - 10:43 UTC

  Lula, Japanese PM discuss bilateral trade and climate change

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva met Saturday in Hiroshima with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ahead of the G7 Summit to discuss further cooperation between the two countries, Agencia Brasil reported. Both leaders agreed to expand bilateral trade and combat climate change, among other issues.

• Monday, April 17th 2023 - 22:58 UTC

  G7 foreign ministers working for consensus on a possible escalation of China/Taiwan conflict

  

  China became a controversial topic in discussions on Monday as the foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) major economies gathered in Japan for a second day of talks, with the European Union divided as to how react to a Taiwan major conflict.

• Friday, February 24th 2023 - 10:29 UTC

  G7 Ambassadors issue joint statement on anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine

  

  To mark the first anniversary of Russia's military deployment in Ukraine, all G7 ambassadors to Buenos Aires issued a joint statement condemning President Vladimir Putin's move and reiterating their countries' full support to Kyiv.

• Thursday, August 4th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Pelosi's visit: G7 and EU call on China not to use force in the Taiwan dispute

  

  The announced threatening actions by the People's Republic of China, particularly live fire exercises and economic coercion risk unnecessary escalation in the Taiwan Strait,” points out a joint statement released on Wednesday by the foreign ministers of G7 countries and the High Representative of the EU.

• Tuesday, June 28th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentine President tells G7 dialogue was needed to solve Ukraine crisis

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday told attendees at the G7 Summit in Elmau, Germany, that tax havens “generate social hells,” and called for a new international financial architecture that would be inclusive of “the peripheries of the world.”

• Monday, June 27th 2022 - 10:57 UTC

  Falklands in agenda of Fernandez bilateral meeting with Johnson at G7

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez confirmed that this Monday afternoon, at the G7 summit in Munich he will be holding a fifteen minutes bilateral talk with UK prime minister Boris Johnson in which he plans to bring up the issue of the Falkland Islands.