Kananaskis, Jun. 16, (dpa/GNA) – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called on the leaders gathered in his country for the summit of the Group of Seven (G7) top democracies to work together for security and prosperity.
The world is at a historic crossroads and facing particular dangers, Carney, as host, warned at the start of the first working session, focusing on the global economy.
“We’re meeting at one of those hinge moments, those turning points in history the world’s more divided and dangerous. Hostile states and terrorists have expanded their capabilities and their reach, threatening global security in our local communities, global commerce, energy systems, even intelligence, are all being rewired,” he said.
“All of us around this table are reinforcing our militaries and security services for the new world, but we all know that there can be no security without economic prosperity, and no prosperity without resilience, and in a world where shocks flow across the borders, that resilience comes from cooperation,” Carney told the other leaders, from the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Japan – plus the European Union.
“Cooperation around this starts around this table, cooperation that can lead to a new era of prosperity, energy security and critical minerals, artificial intelligence, quantum combating human smuggling and transnational repression,” he said.
“So we will have open frank discussions over the course of the next two days. We might not agree on absolutely every issue, but where we will cooperate, we will make an enormous difference for citizens and for the world, and bring the next era of prosperity, I hope, to the benefit of those we serve.”
The gathering was formerly the G8 until Russia’s exclusion after it annexed Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014, after which the group saw itself as a community sharing Western-style democratic values.
But since Trump returned to office, glaring differences have emerged on key issues.
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