Tag: G7

• Monday, June 11th 2018 - 09:03 UTC

  Trump rejects G7 communiqué and fires that “Fair trade is now to be called fool trade”

  

  US President Donald Trump has fired off a string of angry tweets criticising America's closest allies hours after leaving a divisive G7 summit in Canada. Mr Trump said the US paid “close to the entire cost of Nato” to help protect countries that “rip us off on trade”.

• Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 10:32 UTC

  G7 foreign ministers' statement on the Salisbury attack

  

  We, the G7 foreign ministers, of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union, are united in condemning, in the strongest possible terms, the attack that took place against Sergei and Yulia Skripal, using a nerve agent in Salisbury, United Kingdom, on March 4, 2018. A British police officer and numerous civilians were exposed in the attack and required hospital treatment, and the lives of many more innocent British civilians have been threatened. We express our deepest sympathies to them all and our admiration and support for the UK emergency services for their courageous response.

• Thursday, April 19th 2018 - 10:12 UTC

  G7 leaders: statement on chemical weapons use in Syria and Salisbury attack

  

  The G7 leaders have united in condemning the use of chemical weapons in Syria and support recent actions by the US, UK and France to degrade and deter further use. Likewise G7 foreign ministers condemned the nerve agent attack and share the UK's assessment that it is highly likely that the Russian Federation was responsible.

• Friday, September 9th 2011 - 02:53 UTC

  OECD urges from G7 and G20 strong signals of leadership and confidence

  

  The outlook for economic growth in developed countries has got much worse in the last three months, the OECD said Thursday, urging leaders of G7 and G20 countries to send strong signals to restore flagging confidence.