Too Early to Include Russia in G-7, Say U.K. and German Leaders

Boris Johnson and Angela Merkel in Berlin on Aug. 21, 2019. 

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Russia ought not to be invited back into the Group of Seven major economies yet, Germany’s Angela Merkel and the U.K.’s Boris Johnson said on Wednesday.

Their comments during a joint press conference in Berlin come after U.S. President Donald Trump saidBloomberg Terminal earlier this week that he would give it serious consideration if somebody made the motion to return Russia to the group.