Emmanuel Macron, with whom he spoke by phone, has shown openness to such a proposal, “if the sanitary conditions allow”.
the return of The meetings in the flesh ? Donald Trump wants to finally organize a summit of the G7 in June, seeing it as the “symbol formidable” is beginning to return to normal.
After being announced in mid-march that the meeting would take place this year by video-conferencing due to the coronavirus, the us president has discussed on Wednesday the possibility of a reunion at Camp David, a place loaded symbols.
less than six months of the presidential election, the billionaire republican insists on the need to re-open as fast as possible to the economy and promises to tirelessly a year 2021 “incredible”.
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“Now that our country has engaged in the ‘return to greatness’, I plan to reprogram the G7, on the same date or nearly so, to Camp David, legendary place”, he tweeted. “Other members (of the G7) began them also on their return. This would be a symbol great for everyone. Standardization !”.
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such A meeting, if it occurred, would to Donald Trump, criticized for its slow response to the Covid-19, to reposition itself at the centre of the game on the international stage. It would also provide a forum of choice in the arm of iron that it has engaged with China, which he accused of not having reacted quickly enough at the onset of the virus in the city of Wuhan and to have been a lack of transparency.
His French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, with whom he spoke by phone, has shown openness to such a proposal, “if the sanitary conditions allow”. “The G7 is a major event”, stressed the French presidency which has organised the previous edition, in Biarritz in August 2019.
With or without masks ?
German chancellor Angela Merkel, she has remained purposely ambiguous about its intentions. “Regardless of the form of the G7 meeting, a video conference or something else, I will fight for sure for multilateralism,” she said in Berlin. The Prime minister of canada Justin Trudeau has his hand cautiously on this assumption, emphasizing the importance of exploring “what measures would be implemented,” and “expert recommendations”.
The organization of such a summit, the first of its kind since the emergence of the new coronavirus that has claimed more than 320 000 people across the world, raises many practical issues. The size of the delegations would it be drastically limited ? All officers would be called to wear a mask, a practice that Donald Trump has so far refused to comply ?
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If this scenario were to be confirmed, Camp David, located in a mountainous region of the State of Maryland, not far from Washington, would have a size advantage in times of coronavirus : it is secluded and very easy to secure. This holiday residence official of the presidents of the United States has often been used for discussions of the highest international level. It was here that took place the last G7 organized in the United States, in 2012 under the presidency of Barack Obama.
The place is also famous for the Camp David accords, signed in September 1978 under the mediation of Jimmy Carter by the egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat and israeli Prime minister Menachem Begin. These agreements have established the terms of peace between Egypt and Israel.
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informal Group of great powers, established in 1975, the G7 includes the United States, Canada, France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan. Turned into G8 in the late 90’s with the addition of Russia, it is returned to its original format after the suspension of the latter by reason of the annexation of the peninsula, the Ukrainian of the Crimea.
