LIVERPOOL: Britain’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Saturday that the West and its allies needed to unite against authoritarianism, as she stoked concern about threats from Russia and China, a host of G7 counterparts.
The two-day gathering of foreign ministers from the world’s richest nations in Liverpool, north-west England, is the last individual gathering of Britain’s year-long G7 presidency before it passes power to Germany.
Building up Russia’s troops along Ukraine’s border is top of the agenda, along with discussions on confronting China, limiting Iran’s nuclear ambitions and addressing the crisis in military-ruled Myanmar.
“We need to stand firm against aggressors who seek to limit the boundaries of freedom and democracy,” Truss said, formally launching the talks without mentioning specific countries.
“To do this, we need to be completely united. We need to expand our economic and security posture around the world.”
Truss held talks with US Secretary of State on Friday on the sidelines of the summit Antony Blinken Also Germany’s new foreign minister, Annalena Berbock.
Blinken flies to Southeast Asia next week on a trip designed to highlight the region’s importance in Washington’s strategy to stand alongside an increasingly assertive China.
Ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will attend the G7 summit for the first time on Sunday, in a session scheduled for a comprehensive dialogue on issues including the COVID-19 vaccine, finance and gender equality.
South Korea, Australia, South Africa and India will also participate as select UK G7 “guests”, with many attendees attending virtually due to the pandemic and the emergence of the pandemic. omicron Type.
Truss said before the meeting that she wanted deeper ties between the G7 countries in trade, investment, technology and security “so that we can protect and advance freedom and democracy around the world”.
“I’ll push that point over the next few days,” she said.
truss, which replaced Dominic Rabo Britain’s top diplomat in September delivered his first major foreign policy speech on Wednesday as the crisis raged around the world.
He warned Moscow that invading Ukraine would be a “strategic mistake” following growing concerns about the large numbers of Russian troops on the border.
These echo comments made by the US President Joe Biden to your Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin In a virtual summit the previous day.
Britain’s G7 presidency has been dominated in response to Beijing’s growing international assertiveness and alleged widespread domestic rights abuses, including among the Muslim minority Uighur population.
This week, a panel of human rights lawyers and experts in London concluded that Beijing had committed genocide on Uighurs by imposing population restrictions including birth control and forced sterilization.
China rejected the tribunal’s findings.
At the G7 leaders’ summit in June, Biden emphasized a strong collective stance towards both China and Russia, and this week Washington, London and Canberra announced diplomatic boycotts of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Truss has said the West needs to work toward ending the “strategic dependence” of a growing number of low- and middle-income countries on their adversaries in a variety of sectors, from energy to technology.
According to the Foreign Office, she will encourage attendees at the summit to provide more finance for infrastructure and technology projects to those countries.
G7 countries and their allies should offer “an alternative to volatile credit from non-market economies” like China, it said.
Truss will unveil the Africa Resilience Investment Accelerator – a UK-led initiative to boost collaboration investments in Africa’s “most fragile markets” and help develop “a pipeline of investable opportunities”.
“This will help the G7 meet its commitment to invest more than $80 billion in the private sector in Africa over the next five years to support sustainable economic recovery and growth,” the Foreign Office said.
The two-day gathering of foreign ministers from the world’s richest nations in Liverpool, north-west England, is the last individual gathering of Britain’s year-long G7 presidency before it passes power to Germany.
Building up Russia’s troops along Ukraine’s border is top of the agenda, along with discussions on confronting China, limiting Iran’s nuclear ambitions and addressing the crisis in military-ruled Myanmar.
“We need to stand firm against aggressors who seek to limit the boundaries of freedom and democracy,” Truss said, formally launching the talks without mentioning specific countries.
“To do this, we need to be completely united. We need to expand our economic and security posture around the world.”
Truss held talks with US Secretary of State on Friday on the sidelines of the summit Antony Blinken Also Germany’s new foreign minister, Annalena Berbock.
Blinken flies to Southeast Asia next week on a trip designed to highlight the region’s importance in Washington’s strategy to stand alongside an increasingly assertive China.
Ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will attend the G7 summit for the first time on Sunday, in a session scheduled for a comprehensive dialogue on issues including the COVID-19 vaccine, finance and gender equality.
South Korea, Australia, South Africa and India will also participate as select UK G7 “guests”, with many attendees attending virtually due to the pandemic and the emergence of the pandemic. omicron Type.
Truss said before the meeting that she wanted deeper ties between the G7 countries in trade, investment, technology and security “so that we can protect and advance freedom and democracy around the world”.
“I’ll push that point over the next few days,” she said.
truss, which replaced Dominic Rabo Britain’s top diplomat in September delivered his first major foreign policy speech on Wednesday as the crisis raged around the world.
He warned Moscow that invading Ukraine would be a “strategic mistake” following growing concerns about the large numbers of Russian troops on the border.
These echo comments made by the US President Joe Biden to your Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin In a virtual summit the previous day.
Britain’s G7 presidency has been dominated in response to Beijing’s growing international assertiveness and alleged widespread domestic rights abuses, including among the Muslim minority Uighur population.
This week, a panel of human rights lawyers and experts in London concluded that Beijing had committed genocide on Uighurs by imposing population restrictions including birth control and forced sterilization.
China rejected the tribunal’s findings.
At the G7 leaders’ summit in June, Biden emphasized a strong collective stance towards both China and Russia, and this week Washington, London and Canberra announced diplomatic boycotts of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Truss has said the West needs to work toward ending the “strategic dependence” of a growing number of low- and middle-income countries on their adversaries in a variety of sectors, from energy to technology.
According to the Foreign Office, she will encourage attendees at the summit to provide more finance for infrastructure and technology projects to those countries.
G7 countries and their allies should offer “an alternative to volatile credit from non-market economies” like China, it said.
Truss will unveil the Africa Resilience Investment Accelerator – a UK-led initiative to boost collaboration investments in Africa’s “most fragile markets” and help develop “a pipeline of investable opportunities”.
“This will help the G7 meet its commitment to invest more than $80 billion in the private sector in Africa over the next five years to support sustainable economic recovery and growth,” the Foreign Office said.
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