Host Canada known as Thursday on the Group of Seven powers to again Ukraine towards Russia's "aggression" as a extra conciliatory method towards Moscow by Donald Trump's United States break up the membership of rich democracies.
Canada, the present G7 president, is gathering overseas ministers for 3 days of talks inside a country lodge in snow-dusted Charlevoix, on the banks of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec.
As soon as broadly unified, the G7 — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US — has been rattled because the return of Trump, who has reached out to Russia and slapped punishing commerce tariffs on shut allies and rivals alike.
Earlier than the total talks, Canadian International Minister Melanie Joly met individually with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the highest-level US official to go to because the inauguration of Trump who has taunted the US' northern neighbor because the "51st state."
Canada put its maple-leaf flag subsequent to the US Stars and Stripes in a gathering room the place Joly and Rubio exchanged French-style pecks on the cheek and shook palms. They didn’t reply to questions.