Scholz assures that it is necessary to watch if Russia continues the war “with invariable brutality”
The G7 countries are determined to defend the values of Western democracies, not allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to prevail in the war in Ukraine, stand up to China in its ambitions to control world trade, lead the fight against climate change and ending world hunger.
“Putin cannot win this war,” said the federal chancellor and host of the meeting, Olaf Scholz, at the end of the summit of heads of state and government of the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy and Japan in the Bavarian Alps. After underlining the “unity and decision” of the group, the head of the German Executive acknowledged that there are currently no diplomatic possibilities of ending the conflict. “Unfortunately we see that Russia continues the war with invariable brutality,” Scholz said at a press conference, in which he commented that the G7 countries will bill Russia for the “political and financial costs” of the conflict.
Although in the end and at some point there will be an agreement signed by the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, “currently that is not the case,” said the head of the German government, who stressed that the important thing now is to maintain pressure on Russia with greater sanctions. . “There will only be a way out when Putin accepts that he is not capable of imposing his intentions, that is what it is about now,” said the Social Democratic politician, who insisted that the Russian president must assume that “he will not be able to dictate an imposed peace” .
At the end of the summit, he pointed out that the G7 countries will continue to “raise and make increasingly expensive political and economic costs for President Putin and his regime. For that it is important to be united, also in the long term. Scholz commented that they will also stand up to the “Russian narrative” that only the West condemns the invasion of Ukraine “and the rest of the world only watches what Russia does there.”
The federal chancellor reiterated that the G7 supports and will support Ukraine “as long as it takes” and with the means it needs. “We support the country in its defense and offer it future prospects,” said the foreign minister, who also referred to Monday’s attack on a shopping center in the Ukrainian town of Kremenchuk and commented that it is further proof that Putin “maintains his brutal aggression against the civilian population.
Cereal export
He also assured that the select group of rulers is concerned about hunger in the world, aggravated by the Russian blockade of decisive grain exports from Ukraine. “Currently there are 345 million people that we know don’t have enough to eat,” said Scholz, who spoke of the “existential threat” to some African countries from lack of grain supplies. “That is why we want to act and we have forged a global alliance for food security,” stressed the German Prime Minister.
On the third and final day of debates, the G7 leaders took up Scholz’s initiative to create a Climate Club, in which member countries commit to developing exemplary policies to prevent global warming and to support those nations that need technological, but also financial aid to curb climate change.
The meeting also approved the United States initiative for the creation of global infrastructures with which to counter China’s ambitions to control world trade with its New Silk Road. The G7 is committed to investing around 600,000 million euros for this purpose in African, Asian and Latin American nations by 2027 in order to avoid their financial dependence on China, which grants generous loans that in many cases end up becoming debt traps for the affected countries.
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