At the G7 summit, US President Donald Trump wants to personally welcome the heads of state in Washington despite the corona crisis. Chancellor Merkel now gave Trump a basket.
- The G7 summit is scheduled for late June.
- The summit was originally planned as a video conference.
- US President Donald Trump * wants the G7 summit to take place in Washington or Camp David despite the corona crisis *.
Update from Saturday, May 30th, 2020, 10.09am: Chancellor Angela Merkel is unlikely to be present at the G7 summit that US President Donald Trump wants to hold in Washington at the end of June . The reason is the current corona crisis . As a government spokesman said in Berlin on Saturday, Chancellor Trump thanks for his invitation. But: "As of today, given the overall pandemic situation, she cannot promise her personal participation, ie a trip to Washington." Previously, the magazine "Politico" had reported on the cancellation, citing government spokesman Steffen Seibert.
US President Donald Trump is aiming for a real G7 meeting in Washington in late June as a sign of normalization. This year it is hosting the summit of the seven leading economies. Merkel had initially left open whether she would accept Trump's invitation or participate in a video conference. In whatever form this meeting takes place, “whether as a video conference or otherwise, I will definitely fight for multilateralism. That is very clear. Both G7 and G20, ”said the Chancellor on May 20.
G7 Summit: Despite Corona Crisis - Donald Trump Insists on Personal Meeting
First message from May 25, 2020: Washington - The G7 summit is to take place in Washington at the end of June. President Donald Trump's National Security Advisor said on Sunday to CBS. "The G7 Summit, if held as a face-to-face meeting, which we believe will take place in late June."
G7 Summit: Despite Corona, US Government Proposes Physical Meeting
The United States is hosting the G7 summit in 2020. The meeting was originally scheduled for June 10-12, 2020 at Donald Trump's country estate in Camp David. In March the meeting was canceled due to the corona crisis * and scheduled as a video conference.
Having the G7 meeting in Washington is very important for those countries, and the World! https://t.co/tWECoIlu6F
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 25, 2020“It is very important for these nations that the G7 summit takes place in Washington. And for the world, ” Donald Trump tweeted . Last Wednesday (May 20, 2020), Trump had surprisingly announced that, given the recovery in the corona crisis, the summit would take place as a physical meeting. Part of the summit could, according to Trump's words, take place in Camp David , but the place of choice was the White House in Washington .
G7 summit in the US: will the meeting take place at Camp David?
The US capital is particularly affected by the corona crisis in the USA. O'Brien stressed, however, that the peak of the crisis was near or exceeded. "If the situation permits - and we believe it will, we would like to hold the G7 summit as a personal meeting." He believed that the heads of state and government of the G7 countries would also prefer a personal meeting to a video conference. There had already been a “great response” to Donald Trump's invitation .
G7 Summit: The “Group of Seven”
In addition to the United States, the “Group of Seven” participating in the summit includes the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Canada and Japan.
In addition to Donald Trump, Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron, Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Council President Donald Tusk attended the last G7 summit in the French city of Biarritz. The meeting was chaired by French President Emmanuel Macron from August 24 to 26, 2019.
The summit dealt with topics such as climate change, the forest fires in the Amazon rainforest, the Syrian war * or the conflict in Ukraine.
Marvin Ziegele with dpa
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The RKI announces the corona numbers for Germany. Three federal states do not report any new infections, while the number of reproductions in Berlin is well over 1.