KANANASKIS, ALBERTA – JUNE 16: (L-R) Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, U.S. President Donald Trump, British Prime Minister Kier Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, European Union Fee President Ursula von der Leyen, European Union Council President Antonio Costa and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba take part in a gathering on the G7 Leaders’ Summit on June 16, 2025 in Kananaskis, Alberta.
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Group of Seven leaders on Tuesday affirmed unified assist for Israel and referred to as for a decision to the escalating tensions within the Center East, as Tel Aviv trades navy strikes with Tehran.
“We affirm that Israel has a proper to defend itself. We reiterate our assist for the safety of Israel,” G7 leaders mentioned in a joint assertion.
The group condemned Iran for being the “principal supply of regional instability and terror,” reiterating the stance that Iran can by no means have a nuclear weapon.
The leaders of the world’s largest superior economies referred to as for a decision to the “Iranian disaster” and a “broader de-escalation of hostilities within the Center East, together with a ceasefire in Gaza.”
U.S. President Donald Trump won’t be attending the second day of the summit “due to what is going on on within the Center East,” White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned in a put up on X.
The G7 economies comprise the U.S., U.Ok., Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, and this year’s summits also invited leaders from the European Union, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Ukraine and South Korea.
The annual gathering seeks to facilitate consensus on probably the most urgent international financial and geopolitical challenges and to coordinate responses. Among the many key agenda this yr was additionally Trump’s host of tariff coverage that has darkened the outlook for international financial progress.
There’s additionally the thorny difficulty of assist for Ukraine, or Russia’s rehabilitation, with Trump indicating that he was in no rush to impose more durable sanctions on Russia, dismissing strain from allied leaders desperate to do extra to push Moscow to the negotiating desk.
Talking alongside Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney earlier Monday, Trump mentioned the group, earlier often called G8, made a mistake when it expelled Russia in 2014.
The G7 nations’ stance contrasted with that of China which has condemned Israel’s assault on Iran whereas looking for to play up its position as a peacemaker within the Center East area. Chinese language Overseas Minister Wang Yi informed each Israeli and Iranian leaders that China was able to play a constructive position in de-escalating the state of affairs.