World leaders are gathering for the G7 summit in Cornwall this week. G7 foreign ministers, after meeting last month to prepare the ground, said they were “deeply concerned” about “the negative pattern of Russia’s irresponsible and destabilising behaviour”. An agreement to do so would be a tangible legacy from the Cornwall summit. But G7 leaders are nevertheless likely to hail the agreement as the start of a new era of co-operation. The crucial Cop26 climate summit is being held in Glasgow in November, and the prime minister will want to build up a head of global policy steam moving towards this.

Source: The Irish Times June 10, 2021 08:19 UTC