Macron: G7 Agreed on Joint Action over Iran

“G7 leaders had agreed joint action on Iran with the aim of defusing tensions and opening a new negotiation with Tehran,” French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday, Reuters reported.

“We agreed on what we wanted to say jointly on Iran,” Macron told LCI television. There is a message from the G7 on our objectives and the fact that we share them is important, which avoids pisions that in the end weaken everybody.”

“Everyone wants to avoid a conflict, Donald Trump was extremely clear on that point.”

Noteworthy, 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 on. The focus of the Biarritz summit is “the fight against inequality”.