Tajani, who is also responsible for foreign trade and will host the trade ministers of the G7 countries in Reggio Calabria in the south of the country on July 16-17, held a press conference regarding the meeting. He stated that the G7 Trade Ministers meeting will focus on four priority issues: strengthening the multilateral trading system through reforming the World Trade Organization, ensuring a level playing field in global markets, promoting environmental sustainability in trade, and increasing economic resilience and security.
Tajani, who stated that he will make a presentation on the “Food for Gaza” project that they launched with the relevant organizations of the United Nations (UN) in March at the G7 Trade Ministers meeting, said, “We will open the doors of the G7 to the interlocutors that we see as priorities in addressing the fundamental problems of the global economy. The G7 should be an open organization, not a closed one. That is why I wanted Brazil, South Korea, Vietnam, Turkey, New Zealand and India, where billions of people live, to participate.”
Turkish Trade Minister Ömer Bolat is expected to attend the first day sessions of the G7 Trade Ministers meeting.
Statements on China and Russia
Tajani also touched on some foreign policy issues, saying that China is a rival with whom constructive relations should be established, and that Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will visit China. He made the following remarks regarding his expectations from China in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war: “We hope that China will not support Russia militarily, will persuade it to give up the illegally occupied territories and to sit at the peace table with ( “China can play a proactive role in convincing the Russians to follow this path.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Tajani also reiterated at another event he attended in Rome today that “no Italian soldiers will go to Ukraine.”
