EU says Russia should not be readmitted to G7 summit

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>The European Union has joined a growing chorus of members of the Group of Seven major economic powers to insist that Russia must not be allowed back into the fold&comma; after US President Donald Trump said that he plans to invite the country to a G7 summit next autumn&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump said on Saturday that he is postponing next month’s G7 summit&comma; and plans to invite Russia&comma; Australia&comma; South Korea and India when it does take place&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump told reporters that he feels the current make-up of the group is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>very outdated<&sol;i>” and does not properly represent &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>what’s going on in the world<&sol;i>”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The G7 members are Canada&comma; France&comma; Germany&comma; Italy&comma; Japan&comma; the United Kingdom and the United States&comma; while the 27-nation EU&comma; the world’s biggest trading bloc&comma; also takes part&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Russia was suspended in 2014 from the then G8 following its invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that Russia should not be allowed back in until it &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>changes course and the environment allows for the G8 again to have a meaningful discussion&comma; and this is not currently the case<&sol;i>”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Borrell said that it was up to Mr Trump&comma; as G7 chairman&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>to issue guest invitations&comma; and guest invitations reflect the host priorities&period;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But changing membership&comma; or changing the format on a permanent basis&comma; is not the prerogative of the G7 chair&period;<&sol;i>”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Borrell said G7 members &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>sit together because they share values&comma; interests and commitments<&sol;i>”&comma; and he insisted that given the coronavirus pandemic &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>cooperation among like-minded partners is crucial even more in such difficult times<&sol;i>”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Monday&comma; Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau said Russia’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>continued disrespect and flaunting of international rules and norms is why it remains outside of the G7 and why it will continue to remain out<&sol;i>”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman has said the UK would &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<i>look at the detail of what the US is proposin<&sol;i>g”&comma; and also noted that it was customary for the host to invite other leaders as guests&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Asked whether Russia should be let back in&comma; he said <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;we’re yet to see evidence of changed behaviour that would justify its readmittance<&sol;i>”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that she will not personally attend a meeting in the US if Mr Trump goes ahead with it unless the course of the pandemic changes by then&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e3388d534db">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; 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