G7 live broadcast: Raab’s suggestion that Macron’s suggestion that Northern Ireland is not part of the United Kingdom is “offensive” politics

Boris Johnson with Cyril RamaphosaThe President of South Africa stated in the conference reading on the 10th that the President of South Africa agreed that “there is an urgent need to expand vaccine production capacity around the world and increase vaccine accessibility”.

This morning Dominic RabBritish Foreign Secretary says G7 leaders will meet The goals set by Boris Johnson The G7 countries pledged to donate 1 billion doses of vaccine to poorer countries. (Look 8.36am. ) Rab said:

We now believe that we have pledged to vaccinate the world with 1 billion doses by the middle of next year.

The current trajectory puts us at the end of 2024, which changes the rules of the game for responding to the pandemic and returning the world to normal.

As my colleague Patrick Wintour According to reports, aid activists want a clearer understanding of what was actually agreed.

There are officially two projects G7 This morning’s agenda.

9.45 to 11.15 am: Open Society Plenary Meeting

11.30 to 1.30 am: Climate and Nature Plenary Session

In his Sky News interview Gordon BrownThe former Labour Prime Minister said G7 The summit will be regarded as an “unforgivable moral failure” because its vaccine plan for developing countries is not ambitious enough. He explained:

When we needed 11 billion vaccines, we only got a plan for 1 billion vaccines.

I think this summit will also be an unforgivable moral failure, because the richest countries sit at the table and have the ability to act on it.

Now we have discovered the vaccine, but we have not yet proposed a comprehensive plan to provide vaccination before the middle of next year…

We will face a huge problem, which is the disagreement between the safest richest country and the insecure poorest country.

But then the problem will once again plague the richest countries, because we will spread infectious diseases and even harm people who have been vaccinated due to mutations and mutations.

Brown has always been a leader in a global movement, saying that the G7 should be committed to Provide a two-year vaccine and medical care support plan worth 60 billion U.S. dollars for poor countries.

In G7 interviews on Friday and Saturday, Boris Johnson repeatedly refused to rule out another unilateral action by the United Kingdom to oppose parts of the Northern Ireland Agreement, which governs trade in Northern Ireland after Brexit. Northern Ireland There are different rules, because unlike the rest of the UK, it remains in the EU single market.

The end of this month means that the “grace period” for unrestricted frozen meat from the UK to Northern Ireland is coming to an end. Northern Ireland supermarkets should have used this time to purchase supplies from Ireland, but the British government now says that the EU wants to stop selling British sausages in Northern Ireland is absurd, and Johnson does not rule out unilaterally extending the grace period.

Michael MartinThe Prime Minister of Ireland (PM) told Sky News in an interview broadcast this morning that if the UK did this, it would be “very problematic.” He says:

I think this will be very problematic because it has nothing to do with the sausage itself. It is indeed related to an agreement signed by the British government and the European Union not long ago.

If there is a consistent and unilateral deviation from the agreement, this will obviously damage the broader relationship between the EU and the UK, which is not in anyone’s interest, so this is why the UK and the EU must now work very hard in the coming weeks. jobs.

But Martin also said that he believes that both the European Union and the United Kingdom hope to find a solution to this dispute.

Gordon BrownThe former Labor Prime Minister told Sky’s Trevor Phillips on Sunday that thousands of people will be G7 The promise of vaccines is far from enough. These are Kate Ferguson from The Sun.

Q: President Macron told the Prime Minister, is this right? Northern Ireland Doesn’t it belong to the UK?

Rab Said that he would not “lie” about what he said in a private meeting yesterday.

But he effectively confirmed these reports, saying it was not just a person. He said that senior EU officials have been talking about Northern Ireland, as if it were different from other parts of the UK. He went on to say:

“We have continuously seen senior EU officials talking about Northern Ireland as if it is a country different from the United Kingdom. This is not only offensive, but it has had a real-world impact in Northern Ireland’s communities and caused great Attention, caused great panic. But, can you imagine if we take Catalonia, the Flemish part of Belgium, Germany, northern Italy, and the French Corsica as one of the landers as different countries We need a little respect here and, frankly, we also need to understand the situation of all communities in Northern Ireland.

In yesterday’s bilateral talks, in a conversation about the Northern Ireland Agreement, Boris Johnson According to reports, he told Emmanuel Macron: “If the French court prevents you from shipping Toulouse sausages to Paris, what will you do?” Macron reportedly replied, “This is not a good comparison because Paris and Toulouse is part of the same country”.

According to reports, Macron said that Northern Ireland does not belong to the United Kingdom, although, According to the Sunday Times“A source in the French delegation said that Macron is very clear that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom.” Sources told the Sunday Times that Macron pointed out that Britain, which consists of four countries, is different from a unitary country such as France.

Trevor Phillips is being interviewed Dominic RabBritish Foreign Secretary, from G7’s speech at the Sky News Summit. When asked about the results of the summit, Raab said that now the two sides have reached an agreement. G7 One billion doses of vaccine will be provided to poorer countries next year.

Good morning.This is the last day of the G7 summit in Cabis Bay, Cornwall. Downing Street was over overnight A statement Highlight two new initiatives.

• G7 is taking the initiative to “build a better world”. No 10 says:

G7 The leaders are expected to agree today (Sunday) on plans to change the financing of infrastructure projects in developing countries as part of a series of measures taken at the summit to address the climate crisis and protect nature.

The “Rebuild Better for the World” plan will convene G7 countries during the British presidency to provide high-quality financing for important infrastructure from railways in Africa to wind farms in Asia.

The new method aims to allow developing countries to obtain more, better and faster financing, while accelerating the global transition to renewable energy and sustainable technologies. Before the COP26 summit in November, the government will cooperate with other countries on this basis.

This is another example of Boris Johnson Align G7 goals with Conservative Party campaign slogans, But maybe his G7 leader doesn’t mind.The fund is considered Alternatives to China’s “One Belt One Road” Initiative, Its ambitious plan to use infrastructure financing to expand China’s influence, especially in Asia and Africa, and “rebuild better for the world” Strong support from the United States.

• The UK is launching a 500 million pounds Blue Planet fund. No 10 says:

The Prime Minister also established the British Blue Planet Fund at the seaside of the G7 summit in Cornwall. The 500 million pounds fund will support countries such as Ghana, Indonesia and Pacific island countries to solve unsustainable fishing problems, protect and restore coastal ecosystems such as mangroves and coral reefs, and reduce marine pollution.

The 10th also stated that the G7 will approve a “nature contract” this afternoon, “to prevent and reverse the loss of biodiversity by 2030-including support to protect or protect at least 30% of the world’s land and 30% by the end of 2030. The global goal of the ocean. Ten years.”

To help nature compact, senior broadcasters and environmentalists Sir David Attenborough I will speak at the G7 meeting today. In the comments posted in advance, he said:

Today’s natural world is greatly reduced. This is undeniable. Our climate is warming rapidly. This is beyond doubt.Our society and country are unequal, sadly it is obvious

But the problem that science forces us to solve specifically in 2021 is, because of these intertwined facts, are we on the verge of destabilizing the entire planet?

If this is the case, then the decisions we made in the past decade—especially those made by the most economically developed countries—are the most important decisions in human history.

This blog will only focus on G7 today.The summit will end at lunchtime and 2pm Boris Johnson A press conference will be held soon. At that time, other leaders will also speak to the media.

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