(25 Nov 2024)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fiuggi, Italy – 25 November 2024
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STORYLINE:
Tight security surrounds the G7 Foreign Ministers’ two-day summit in Italy, which kicked off on Monday.
Leaders face mounting pressure to push forward diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine.
The summit, the second during the Italian presidency after ministers gathered in Capri in April, is being held in the medieval town of Fiuggi, southeast of Rome, best known for its thermal spas.
Top diplomats from the world’s leading industrialized nations met Monday, with the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine entering decisive phases and a certain pressure to advance diplomatic efforts ahead of the new U.S. administration taking over.
Hopes for brokering a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon were foremost on the agenda of the Group of Seven meeting that gathered ministers from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, in the last G7 encounter of the Blinken administration.
As the G7 ministers arrived in Italy, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., Mike Herzog, told Israeli Army Radio on Monday a ceasefire deal to end fighting between Israel and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah could be reached “within days.”
Ministers from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, as well as the Secretary General of the Arab League, were joining the G7 in the afternoon.
Several intervened at a related event in Rome to call for an urgent end to Israel’s strikes in Gaza and Lebanon, following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
AP video shot by Isaia Montelione and Silvia Stellacci
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