With two days to go until G7 leaders gather in Charlevoix, Quebec, summit participants have yet to agree on a final communique, according to reports by the German Press Agency (DPA). Citing a source in Berlin, the press agency reports that disagreements with U.S. President Donald Trump over trade and climate change policies could lead the Charlevoix summit to conclude without the usual joint communique for the first time in G7 history. G7 summits often use a chair's statement or summary but they have always had a pre-negotiated communique, which normally would be agreed upon months before the leaders gather around the negotiating table. The lack of an agreed communique at this point basically points to the United States' isolation in the G7, Kirton said. There was almost no pre-negotiated final communique at Trump's first G7 summit in Taormina, Italy, last year, Kirton said.

Source: CBC News June 05, 2018 23:07 UTC