The just concluded three-day Group of Seven or G7 summit — comprising the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Japan — released an unusually long and detailed joint statement of 70 paragraphs and a separate Open Societies statement. The latter communiqué was on behalf of the G7 and the four invitees to the gathering: Australia, India, South Korea and South Africa. The G7 summit was only the first of the three key meetings involving the western countries this week. The NATO meet and the European Union-US summit were also hosted in Brussels.
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Shyam Saran: At G7, Biden achieved Western consensus—more against Russia than China
US President Joe Biden speaks during a press conference after the NATO summit at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Brussels, on June 14, 2021.
