Photos: Queen Elizabeth II meets with G7 leaders

Queen Elizabeth II of England received this Friday G7 leaders and his companions at an official reception in an environmental park in Cornwall (south-west of England), in which the prince carlos and his son, the prince Guillermo.

Before attending a dinner at the dit Eden Project, a space where the different climates of the planet are recreated, The 95-year-old British monarch presided over a joint photograph of the leaders of the Group of Industrialized Democracies.

The British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, flanked the queen in the front row of the group, while the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the President of the United States, Joe biden, stood at extremes. Biden, who attends the first international meeting since his accession to the White House, is the 13th American president with whom the British sovereign has agreed.

The president and his wife, Jill biden, will visit Elizabeth II again next Sunday, on this occasion in her residence in the castle of Windsor, following the conclusion of the leaders’ summit in Cornwall.

At the end of the photo shoot, which took place in a relaxed atmosphere, Merkel approached Elizabeth II to thank her for the welcome: “Thank you very much for doing this for us”, he told him.

Following the first plenary session of the G7 summit, the first face-to-face in two years due to the pandemic, some of the leaders walked through the large glass domes of Project Eden, a scene that the UK government hosted the event, has chosen to emphasize the relevance of the fight against the climate crisis among the group’s priorities.

G7 leaders kicked off in England on Friday a summit presented as a “huge opportunity” to relaunch the global recovery after the pandemic, starting with the distribution of one billion doses of vaccine against covid-19.

After almost two years without a meeting, the heads of state and government of Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom have once again gathered around a round table after the reception that the host, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, gave to everyone at a beach in Carbis Bay, in the south-west of England.

In the words of Joe Biden, the summit marks the American “return” to multilateralism, after the Donald Trump years. “I look forward to (…) working with our allies and partners to build a fairer and more inclusive global economy. Let’s get to work, ”tweeted the US president.

Biden seeks to form a united front against Russia and China. But Beijing replied that US diplomacy is “Based on the interests of small cliquesIn the words of a Chinese Communist Party official, Yang Jiechi, who spoke by telephone with the US Secretary of State, Antoine Blink.

The head of the American diplomacy, who held the conversation of Carbis Bay, he replied that China must show “cooperation and transparency regarding the origin “of the coronavirus, and also asked him to” put an end to his pressure campaign on Taiwan “.

The fight against climate change will be the summit’s other priority. Johnson’s ambition is to lead a “green industrial revolution” to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

To preserve the biodiversity, wants the G7 to commit to protecting “at least 30%“Land and oceans on this date.

The seven major economies are also expected to promote investment in clean infrastructure in developing countries to stimulate and decarbonize their economies.

Another hot topic on the agenda, the challenges posed by Beijing and Moscow, whose president, Vladimir Putin, will meet Biden on Wednesday in Geneva. “The European line is clear: China is a systemic rival, a partner on global issues and a competitor”said a French source.

And another sticking point: the complicated application of Brexit in the UK region of Northern Ireland. Biden, of Irish descent, refrained from publicly criticizing Johnson during his first face-to-face meeting on Thursday, but EU officials intend to demand that he comply with what has been agreed, since London does not apply post-Brexit customs controls to avoid tensions with the Northern Irish unionists.

With information from EFE and AFP

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