G7 ministers want to stage a ‘demonstration of solidarity’ against Russia | Stories

The Foreign Minister of the United Nations (G7) convened in Liverpool, Britain, wants to demonstrate a “demonstration of solidarity against international terrorists”, and his predecessor, the United Kingdom, expressing deep concern for the growth of Russian troops at the border. in Ukraine.

The UK wants an impossible deal from the rich club in response to what it calls Russia’s “bad behavior”, as well as conflicts with China and Iran.

“We need to protect ourselves from the growing threats from actors,” British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said at the opening of a conference of foreign ministers in the UK, United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan. “And we need to come together stronger to fight the terrorists who want to reduce the boundaries of freedom and democracy.”

The US and its NATO allies are worried that the move by Russian troops and weapons to the border with Ukraine could be a precursor to insurgency and will impose severe sanctions on Russia’s economy if this happens.

Moscow denies planning to invade Ukraine and blames Kyiv for its so-called atrocities. The Kremlin has said it is concerned about Western pressures to supply Ukraine with technical weapons that Kyiv allegedly uses to provoke Moscow.

Friday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg rejection Russia wants to end calls on Ukraine to join the war effort.

Truss and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed how to prevent Russia from “continuing the violence of Ukraine” at a public meeting, the US government department said. The UK said the two had warned that the Russian attack “could be a serious mistake that could lead to serious problems”.

Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands, who hails from Liverpool, said of all the difficulties and threats the delegates have been making to China, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and COVID – but “no one has ruled as a Russian subject”.

“Liz Truss is trying to establish herself as a free country coordinator,” Challands said.

“He said we should stop Russia from taking action (invading Ukraine),” he added.

The State Department announced on Saturday that the US ambassador to Europe, Karen Donfried, would visit both Kyiv and Moscow next week “to strengthen the United States’ commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence and loyalty to Ukraine” and to seek a diplomatic response to Ukraine. problems.

After meeting with Ukrainian and Russian officials, Donfried traveled to Brussels to meet with NATO and European Union allies.

‘Core values’

In an effort to strengthen cooperation between the G7 group of rich countries, Truss said “free democratic countries” should give up Russian oil and Russian money to maintain their independence.

He also said he wanted to work with other countries to “ensure that democracies could have an alternative way to produce Russian gas”, referring to the Nord Stream 2 bomb that was built to transport gas from Russia to Germany, across. Ukraine.

Truss met with a new German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, a Greensan politician who opposed Nord Stream 2, on the sidelines of the conference.

The UK, which does not rely heavily on Russian gas, has been opposed to the pipeline. But London’s financial center is a stock market and Russia’s largest financial center, and UK officials have been accused of neglecting money laundering around the world.

Truss stressed that the UK is ready to consider new economic strategies to protect its “basic needs,” and said “cheap power or cheap money” could have a “long-term cost of freedom and democracy”.

This weekend’s meeting at the Dockside Museum of Liverpool is the final event of the UK’s annual G7 leadership of the year. Ambassadors in Liverpool are also preparing to discuss global vaccination failure in the coronavirus, conflicts in the western Balkans, Afghanistan and North Korea, as well as Chinese tissue exchanges in the Indo-Pacific region.

The summit comes as diplomats are meeting in Vienna to try to revive the nuclear weapons deal, which seeks to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Blinken met with German, French and British ambassadors to Liverpool to discuss Iran, and Biden’s special envoy to Iran, Robert Malley, also stopped in the city on his way to Vienna.

Truss also invited members of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations to the Liverpool meeting, although many had joined the strike as a result of the epidemic.

Truss told his G7 allies that democracies must fight “economic pressure” and “military success” – all of which point to Beijing’s global growth.

The G7 has developed a “Build Back Better World” approach to developing developing countries to finance major construction projects instead of Chinese investment which, Europeans say, often comes with ropes.