Trump to meet with Middle East leaders, attend Ukraine session at G7, US officials say


FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as he meets with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (not pictured) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 3, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) - ⁠U.S. President Donald Trump will ⁠meet with Middle Eastern leaders and attend ‌a working session with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during the G7 summit in France next week, ​senior U.S. administration officials ⁠said on Saturday.

Officials ⁠said Trump would meet separately with the leaders ⁠of ‌Egypt, Qatar, United Arab Emirate, France and India. No bilateral ⁠meeting was planned with Zelenskiy but ​the two ‌leaders could meet on the sidelines ⁠of the ​summit, they added.

Trump planned to raise issues of shared importance with leaders at the ⁠summit, including economic growth ​and development, supply chain resilience, illegal migration and AI, one of the officials said. He ⁠also planned to work on boosting resilience in the supply chain for critical minerals needed for advanced technologies.

Trump planned ​to attend a dinner ⁠at the palace of Versailles on Wednesday ​before returning to Washington, ‌the officials said.

(Reporting by Andrea ​Shalal and Steve Holland; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise and Susan Heavey)

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