G7 leaders are on Saturday set to agree a joint declaration aimed at preventing another pandemic, as they resume wide-ranging talks at their first in-person summit in almost two years.
The group of leading economies – Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States – will also try to showcase Western democratic cohesion against a resurgent China and recalcitrant Russia.
They will be joined by the leaders of Australia, South Africa and South Korea, along with India taking part remotely, as the agenda broadens to foreign policy issues and climate change.
The G7 is meeting face to face for the first time since 2019, at a beachside venue in Cornwall, southwest England, after the coronavirus led to the cancellation of last year’s summit.
The leaders opened the three-day summit Friday with expectations of a pledge to donate one billion vaccine doses to poor countries this year and next – much too slow to end the crisis now, campaigners said.
US President Joe Biden arrived with a message of solidarity and resolve in stark contrast to the isolationist stance of his…
