Italy, the country of the chair, chooses the host country that fits the agenda as the development of Africa
Last year, Korea was invited to the Hiroshima G7 summit.
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jiyeon Kim = It was reported that Korea was not invited to the G7 (seven major countries) summit to be held in Italy in June.
According to multiple diplomatic sources on the 19th, Korea was not included in the list of countries invited for the G7 summit to be held from June 13 to 15 in Puglia, southeastern Italy.
The G7 is a group of seven developed Western countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, and Japan, and the chair country that year has the discretion to invite countries he believes they can contribute to the discussion at senior meetings, etc.
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Accordingly, the government continued to consult with Italy, this year’s chair country, to attend the G7 summit, but it seems that this was not a success.
Italy has announced that it will focus on discussing the war in Ukraine, the Middle East crisis, development aid in Africa, and migration issues at this year’s G7, and it is known that the invited countries have mostly been chosen of countries that can contribute to these. agendas.
Reuters recently reported that Argentina, Egypt, Tunisia, Kenya, Algeria, and India, Brazil, and South Africa, the hosts of the G20 (20 major countries) meetings last year, this year, and next year, plan to have invite them to the G7 summit.
The government has been promoting ‘G7 Plus diplomacy’ to establish itself as a regular partner of the G7 in line with its higher international status under the banner of ‘global central country’.
In that regard, it is considered unfortunate that Korea was not included in the list of countries invited to the G7 summit following the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting currently being held.
Korea has been invited to the G7 summit three times since 2020.
He was invited to the summit consecutively in 2020 and 2021, when the US and the UK were chair countries, respectively, but skipped 2022, when Germany took over as chair country , and attended last year’s summit at Japan’s invitation.
One source said that strengthening cooperation with the G7 does not mean only attending the summit “It is an invitation to countries that can discuss agendas that the chairman values, so it is difficult to link the invitation with our collaborative relationship with the G7 or. our status.” “There is,” he said.
Another source mentioned the G7 ministerial meetings that Korea was invited to, such as the Industry, Technology and Digital Ministers’ Meeting held in March and the Finance Ministers’ Meeting in May, and said, “We cooperate in different ways with the G7, “whether the country is invited to the summit or not.
He emphasized, “The basic principle is to continue to strengthen our partnership with the G7 to the extent possible.”
The government is expected to push for participation in the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, which is expected to take place in November.
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