Trump G7
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has rejected a proposal by U.S.
President Donald Trump to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin back into the
Group of Seven trump
g7 most advanced
economies, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said in a newspaper interview
published on Monday.
Trump raised the prospect last month of expanding the trump g7 to again include Russia, which had been
expelled in 2014 following Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region.
But Maas told Rheinische Post that he did not see any chance for
allowing Russia back into the trump
g7 as long as there was
no meaningful progress in solving the conflict in Crimea as well as in eastern
Ukraine.
Russia itself could make the biggest contribution to becoming
part of the trump g7 format again by contributing to a
peaceful solution in the Ukraine conflict, Maas said.
Russia is still part of the G20, a broader grouping including
other emerging-market economies.
“Trump
g7 and G20 are two
sensibly coordinated formats. We don’t need G11 or G12 anymore,” Maas said in
reference to Trump’s proposal to invite not only Russia, but other countries to
trump g7 meetings.
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