Trump says that Russian Federation should be reinstated as a G8 member

Russian Federation should participate in the G-7 talks, US President Donald Trump said at the end of the summit in Canada, Reuters reported. On Friday, Mr Trump made a surprise call for Moscow to be readmitted, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel said other members were against the idea.

This summit started very badly, and it could end without the usual communique agreed by all.

The White House subsequently announced the president would leave on Saturday, before the summit formally ends, to fly to Singapore to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

“The American president may not mind being isolated”, Macron tweeted, “but neither do we mind signing a 6-country agreement if need be”.

The annual G7 summit brings together the leaders of the USA, UK, Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Canada and the European Union – but this year it’s being dominated by one man: Donald Trump.

At the White House, Abe offered Trump praise for his denuclearization efforts in the Korean Peninsula, telling him it was an outstanding achievement that past USA presidents have been unable to accomplish.

“They should let Russian Federation come back in because we should have Russian Federation at the negotiating table”. The official said disagreements remain, particularly with the USA on a number of issues, but the goal remains to reach agreement on all the big issues.

“International law prohibits the acquisition of part or all of another state’s territory through coercion or force”, former President Barack Obama and other world leaders said in a statement at the time.

“Prime Minister Trudeau is being so indignant, bringing up the relationship that the USA and Canada had over the many years and all sorts of other things”, Trump said in a tweet on Thursday. If you look at what Canada, and Mexico, the European Union – all of them – have been doing to us for many, many decades.

Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron had what was described by a French official as a “very cordial” discussion about trade and North Korea.

Mr Trump said on Friday that the United States and Canada were working on cutting tariffs “and making it all very fair for both countries”. A gathering of G-7 finance ministers days earlier concluded last week with a message of “concern and disappointment” for Trump from the other six countries. “If it doesn’t happen, we come out even better!”, he states. But the president’s Twitter feed Thursday suggested he’ll arrive in Quebec with his elbows up. “I regard this much like a family quarrel”, Ludlow said.

Trudeau said he would continue to stand up for Canadian dairy producers and the country’s supply management system.

This will make for an awkward bilateral meeting between Trudeau and Trump, which is scheduled for this afternoon.

He will miss at least some of the summit’s second day and there’d been speculation he’d cancel his appearance entirely amid public criticism from allies over steel and aluminium tariffs imposed by the U.S.in recent weeks.

Trudeau has worked hard to find common ground with the unpredictable president, but the personal bond he has tried to forge has been strained.

Trudeau told reporters the USA national security justification for the tariffs on steel and aluminum was “laughable”.

“They did discuss NAFTA at length and they discussed the future of NAFTA, and I would say they also talked about accelerating the talks”.

But the French leader quickly added that Trump can’t expect credibility on that file while he undoes all the good work done to date on pushing Iran to abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons.