G7 demands peace in West Asia and promises quick assistance for Ukraine

The main nations that make up the Group of Seven (G7) promised on Friday to back Ukraine’s air defenses against the more lethal Russian strikes. They also instructed China to cease supporting Moscow’s military industry if it desired positive ties with the West.

After three days of negotiations dominated by the battles in Ukraine and West Asia, foreign ministers from the G7 countries—the United States, Italy, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and Britain—came to an end on the island of Capri.

They called for de-escalation in West Asia, where the intense animosity between Israel and Iran runs the danger of sparking a larger regional confrontation, and agreed that they needed to do more to support Ukraine, which is fighting to repel bigger Russian troops. However, the ministers said that the many global crises were drawing the world’s most powerful democracies closer together.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken of the unified States said, “We emerge from this meeting of the foreign ministers more united than ever.” Concerned about increasing Russian might in the battlefield, Dmytro Kuleba, the foreign minister of Ukraine, personally visited Capri to inform the G7 partners that further help was required, citing a connection between the hostilities in his nation and West Asia.

The same kind of weaponized drones that Russia deployed in its massive strike on Israel last week are supplied by Iran. “Because these are two theaters of the same war, the narrative that the West must choose between supporting Israel or Ukraine is false,” Kuleba told reporters.

Shortly after what reports claimed to be an Israeli strike on Iran in retribution for a recent Iranian drone and missile assault on Israel, the foreign ministers’ session came to an end.

The G7 ministers pledged to try to stop the Israeli-Iranian dispute from getting out of hand while also trying to put an end to the Gaza war.