No joint G7 Ukraine statement after U.S. wanted language changed: source

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The G7 released a bid of statements vowing to enactment unneurotic connected issues including captious minerals, transnational repression and artificial quality — but notably absent was the warfare successful Ukraine.

Zelenskyy cutting travel to Canada short

Prime Minister Mark Carney walks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to a greeting  league   astatine  the G7 Summit successful  Kananaskis, Alta., Tuesday, June 17, 2025.

Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Tuesday morning. The G7 leaders person not agreed connected a associated connection connected the warfare successful Ukraine. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

There volition not beryllium a associated connection from G7 leaders connected the warfare successful Ukraine due to the fact that the United States wouldn't hold to the last wording, a elder Canadian authorities root says.

While determination was 1 primitively planned, the source said six of the leaders were prepared to spell acold successful their connection but the Americans wanted to water it down.

The official, who spoke connected the information they not beryllium named, said the Americans did not privation immoderate of the pointed remarks astir Russia to beryllium included successful the associated connection due to the fact that they feared it would compromise negotiations with that state implicit ending their war.

Instead, immoderate of the connection astir Russia's penetration volition beryllium included successful Prime Minister Mark Carney's "chair's statement."

The determination comes aft the leaders spent the greeting listening to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, arsenic helium stressed the request for an unconditional ceasefire.

Sources with the Ukrainian delegation told CBC News Zelenskyy is cutting his sojourn short, pursuing a deadly bombardment connected the Ukrainian capital overnight and U.S. President Donald Trump's determination to skip Tuesday's program.

Trump near Monday night, citing the Middle East conflict. The root said Zelenskyy volition caput backmost to Kyiv aft talks successful Kananaskis wrapper up. He's cancelled a quality league planned successful Calgary.

The G7 — made up of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. along with the European Union — did find statement connected immoderate items, mirroring the database of priorities Carney had already laid retired earlier the leaders' helicopters touched down successful the Canadian Rockies on Sunday.

They see the Kananaskis Wildfire Charter and statements connected transnational repression, countering migrant smuggling, artificial quality and a "common vision" for the aboriginal of quantum technologies.

A bombed retired  gathering  with medics carrying a stretcher.

A large Russian onslaught successful Kyiv overnight Monday killed implicit a twelve people. (Anatolii Stepanov/Reuters)

There's a lengthy G7 captious minerals enactment plan as the leaders absorption connected diversifying accumulation to antagonistic China. Those minerals are an indispensable constituent successful powering the modern exertion that we usage each day. 

Canada could benefit given however galore of those minerals tin beryllium recovered successful this country.

The wildfire charter is besides adjacent to Canada's interests, pursuing back-to-back wildfire seasons. In an effort to much rapidly snuff retired fires astir the world, the radical agreed to "enhance interoperability" truthful firefighting instrumentality from 1 state tin beryllium utilized successful others, on with different commitments. The extremity is for firefighters to beryllium much easy deployed wherever the request is greatest.

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The G7 leaders released different associated connection Monday night, calling for a "de-escalation" of hostilities successful the Middle East. It affirms Israel's close to support itself and recognizes Iran arsenic "the main root of determination instability and terror" but besides calls for immoderate benignant of "resolution."

"We impulse that the solution of the Iranian situation leads to a broader de-escalation of hostilities successful the Middle East, including a ceasefire successful Gaza," work the statement, made nationalist aft Monday's moving dinner.

Trump met with his National Security Council successful Washington connected Tuesday to sermon the warfare betwixt Israel and Iran.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Catharine Tunney is simply a newsman with CBC's Parliament Hill bureau, wherever she covers nationalist information and the RCMP. She worked antecedently for CBC successful Nova Scotia. You tin scope her astatine [email protected]

    With files from Ashley Burke

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