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Donald Trump said it was a “big mistake” to exclude Russia from the G7 Summit as he used his initial comments of the meeting in Rocky Mountains in Canada to reduce the treatment of the Group of Moscow.
The US President made his complaint by the Prime Minister of Mark Carney, Canada, marked a strange start for this year’s summit, which is dominating War in the middle eastTrade tension, and inability to broker a peace deal in Washington’s Ukraine.
Trump has long said that he would like to see G7 Return to a G8 format, bringing Moscow back into the fold, as before the Annexation of Russia’s Crimea in 2014.
“It was a big mistake. You wouldn’t have the war,” Trump said, referring to the full attack of Russia’s Ukraine that began in 2022. ,[Vladimir] Putin talks to me, he does not talk to anyone else because he was insulted when he got out of G8. ,
The President said that it was “not a bad idea” for China as part of the G7, including the world’s largest industrial economies and liberal democracy for decades. China and Russia are part of the G20, a broad multilateral group that includes the world’s largest economies.
Ukraine, the chairman of Ukraine, came as Trump’s repetition as Volodimir Zelanski, was invited to join the group for a special session on Tuesday. Conflict with RussiaTrump and Zelansky are also expected to have a bilateral meeting on Tuesday.
In his own initial comments, Carney greeted Trump a happy birthday – he turned 79 on Saturday – and said “G7 is nothing, without our leadership”.
Trump and Carney held bilateral talks after the initial comments, which can be focused on furthering the conversation around trade and safety relations between the two countries “by Canadian authorities and” “.
The US and Canada are trying to reach a disposal for trade disputes that were provoked after Trump’s new tariffs were imposed on Canadian metal imports in the US, but it was not clear that there was no success in sight. “We are going to see if we can reach its bottom today,” said Trump.
It was not clear whether G7 leaders would get a general situation or message that the message between the struggle Israel and Iran It broke on the eve of the summit, but Trump urged Tehran to talk.
“It is painful for both sides, but I would say that Iran is not winning this war, and they should talk,” said Trump. “And they should talk immediately before it is too late.”
Asked if the US provided intelligence aid for Israel, Trump said Washington “always supported Israel” and said “Israel is doing very well right now”.
