G7 leaders agree on terror, migration, trade
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E-mail Xinhua, May 28, 2017
The leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) nations issued a joint communique on Saturday that found common ground on counter-terrorism, migration as well as trade, though U.S. President Donald Trump has shown reluctance to agree with others over trade issue.
Trump, however, appeared to have backed down from his fiercely protectionist stance on trade.
The G7 "reiterate our commitment to keep our markets open and to fight protectionism, while standing firm against all unfair trade practices", the joint communique said.
The leaders also reached a compromise on migration, acknowledging that states "share a responsibility" in dealing with the mass exodus of men, women and children from war and famine zones in Africa and the Middle East.
The lion's share of the document was dedicated to ongoing conflicts in Lybia, Syria, and Iraq, which are breeding grounds for fundamentalist terrorism.
"We commit to continuing ... efforts ... to complete the liberation of ISIS/ISIL/Da'esh-held territories, in particular Mosul and Raqqa, in the pursuit of ISIS/ISIL/Da'esh's final destruction," read the communique, using the various acronyms used for the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) fundamentalist militia.
ISIS actively urges its followers to carry out terrorist attacks. It has hailed Monday's suicide bomb blast in the British city of Manchester that claimed 22 lives, and claimed responsibility for the slaughter of dozens of Coptic Christians in Cairo on Palm Sunday.
"It will be impossible to defeat terrorism without a political settlement" in Syria, the G7 document said.
They also stressed the need to stop the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) nuclear weapons program. The DPRK "increasingly poses new levels of threat of a grave nature to international peace and stability", the G7 statement said.
The communique came on the second and final day of the 43rd G7 summit.
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