G7 Convenes in Italy: Syria On Top Of Agenda
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Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven [G7] major industrialized countries are in Italy for a summit, with the Syrian conflict at the top of its agenda.
During the two-day ministerial summit starting in the Italian city of Lucca on Monday, the G7 members will hold a special session to discuss Syria.
Along with the G7 members - Germany, France, the UK, Canada, Italy, Japan and the US - the foreign ministers of Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Qatar are also scheduled to take part in the special session, due on Tuesday.
The countries will reportedly demand that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson clearly set out Washington's policy regarding Syria.
Officials in the administration of US President Donald Trump, including the American president himself, have been taking different, sometimes conflicting, stances on Syria and have even made several U-turns on the government of President Bashar al-Assad in the few months since taking office.
Trump, an early advocate of engagement with Russia to primarily fight Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the Takfiri ‘ISIS/ISIL' group] in Syria, ordered missile strikes against a Syrian military airbase on Friday, pushing Moscow determinedly away from himself.
Also, while some American officials indicated that the strike was a "one-off" and not meant to unseat al-Assad, Washington's hardline ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said in a Sunday interview that removing the Syrian president was a priority. Days earlier, she had said the opposite.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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