G7, summit ends in Biarritz

2019-08-26T09:17:24.575Z

Last day of work at the G7 in Biarritz that will end with an unpublished press conference for two of the landlord Emmanuel Macron together with the president uses Donald Trump. Preceded by a series of bilateral. The summit starts this morning with the work session extended to the 5 African partners, followed by a working lunch extended to the leaders of South Africa, Australia, Chile and India. The President of the Council, Giuseppe Conte, will take part in the final day and in the early afternoon he will have meetings on the sidelines with the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and the Australian head of government, Scott Morrison. With the new tenant of Downing Street we will talk about Brexit, with the deadline for exiting the EU now in sight and the concerns that arise for the many Italians who live and work in the UK. The American president, Donald Trump, has reported that it is "too early" to meet Iran's Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, who yesterday came as a surprise to Biarritz. Trump also made it known that he was aware of Zarif's arrival. It was he himself who confirmed it, pointing out that the French president, Emmanuel Macron, had asked him. "I don't consider him disrespectful," Trump commented. On the burning issue of duties Trump said that China "wants to make an agreement" with the US: it was the American president himself who announced it, stressing that "it is a great thing". "China called our people responsible for trade last night and said they would return to the negotiating table," he added, celebrating Chinese President Xi Jinping as a "great leader."