Christoph Heusgen, the pinnacle of the Munich Security Conference has voiced his help for enlarging the Group of Seven (G-7) main industrialized international locations to ensure that the discussion board to remain related.
“I think it is important that the G-7 group expands,” he advised the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) in Berlin.
“The group is characterized by the fact that it is about countries that share common values. They are democratic, market-economy countries,” he stated.
“But we also see that the relative weight, especially the economic weight, of these countries is decreasing. For this reason, I think an expansion would be logical,” he stated.
The G-7 contains Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, the United States and Britain. Heusgen advised international locations similar to South Korea and Australia may be part of to “increase the clout” of the format.
Heusgen chairs the Munich Security Conference, which gathers collectively world leaders and high-ranking protection and overseas coverage officers yearly within the Bavarian metropolis.
Leaders of the Group of 20 (G-20) – a broader grouping of the world’s greatest economies – will meet within the Indian capital New Delhi this weekend.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
