2020 G7 Summit Likely to be Held in Miami: Trump

US President Donald Trump hinted that next year’s G7 summit will take place in Miami at one of his golf resorts, Trump National Doral.

He also said it will be “near the airport”.

The US is next up to host the G7 in 2020. Trump said while he hasn't made a final decision on where to host the summit, officials "haven't found anything that's even close to competing with it."

The G7 is made up of the world’s seven largest so-called advanced economies: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The initial group of six first met in 1975 “to exchange ideas on possible solutions” to a global economic crisis. Canada joined the following year.

Russia joined the group, which then became known as the G8, in 1998 but was suspended in 2014 after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine.

Ministers and civil servants from the G7 countries meet throughout the year to discuss matters of mutual interest.

Each member nation takes over the G7 presidency for a year on a rolling basis and hosts the annual centerpiece two-day summit meeting.

At the end of the summit a joint communiqué is issued, outlining what has been agreed.

This year’s summit addresses a number of topics, including international security, combating terrorism and extremism, confronting the use of the Internet for terrorist purposes, and ways to confront human trafficking and illegal migration, Rady added.

The summit will also focus on combating inequality and supporting the empowerment of women especially in Africa, as well as environmental, climate and biopersity issues, and developments in the global economic and financial system.

Egyptian President El Sisi is participating, on Monday, in the G7 session on climate, biopersity and oceans.

El Sisi’s speech in the summit focused on the African continent’s view on environmental and climate change issues.

On the other hand, Sisi also met with French President Emmanuel Macron this afternoon.

Noteworthy, Sisi held, at his residence in Biarritz, a business lunch with a number of African presidents on the sidelines of G7 Summit in France on Sunday.

They included Rwandan President Paul Kagame, President of Senegal Macky Sall, President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa, President of Burkina Faso Roch Marc Christian Kaboré and chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Fakih