U.S. plans different approach in leading G7 in 2020 - White House official


  • World
  • Thursday, 18 Jul 2019

FILE PHOTO - Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, France's President Emmanuel Macron and Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte walk away as Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel talks with U.S. President Donald Trump after a family photo at the G7 Summit in the Charlevoix city of La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada, June 8, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration plans to adopt shorter communiques and generally revamp how the Group of Seven rich nations does its work when the United States leads the body in 2020, a White House adviser said.

Kelly Ann Shaw, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump for international economic affairs, said the White House views multilateral groups like the G7 as "incredibly useful" but believed they had been saddled with too many disparate issues.

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