G7 in Japan, the arrival of the leaders of the member countries, from Meloni to Biden. PHOTO

Incoming world leaders a Hiroshima on the occasion of the G7 which will officially begin on 19 May. Among others, US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrived in the Japanese city. The first to arrive was last night Giorgia Melonithe fifth female prime minister to participate in a G7

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Before tomorrow’s summit, today the prime minister took part in a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida. Before the summit Kishida expressed his condolences for the victims of bad weather in Emilia Romagna

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Giorgia Meloni thanked Kishida and congratulated him for “the determination and seriousness with which you are managing the G7 in a year that is certainly not easy”. The prime minister then underlined, given that Italy will be “the next president of the G7”, the importance of “working together for security, and for economic security”

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Bilateral meeting with the Japanese prime minister also for the president of the United States Joe Biden, who arrived in Hiroshima in the morning, shortly after the summit with Giorgia Meloni. According to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Biden will visit the Peace Memorial Museum tomorrow with his G7 counterparts. This is the museum built in memory of the tragedy caused by the United States dropping the first atomic bomb on the city on August 6, 1945

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According to reports from Ansa, Biden and Kishida they should discuss their countries’ alliance response capabilities amid growing concerns over China and North Korea. Meanwhile, Prime Minister James Marape of Papua New Guinea has announced that he will sign a security pact with the US, after the parliamentary green light, to grant US troops access to the nation’s ports and airports. A move in favor of Washington in the challenge with Beijing over influence in the Pacific

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The British premier is also taking part in the G7 Rishi Sunak (in the photo the arrival with his wife Akshata Murty from Tokyo). Simultaneously with the summit, the prime minister announced an agreement with Japan in the defense sector and in the economic sphere

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L’agreement will see the intensification of “cooperation between our armed forces,” said Sunak (pictured at a conference a few hours earlier in Tokyo), allowing “to make our economies grow together and develop our scientific and technological skills”. The premier also announced new investments in the UK by Japanese companies for £17.7 billion

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Accompanied by his wife Britta Ernst, also the Federal Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz arrived in Hiroshima. Yesterday the leader was in Reykjavik for the Council of Europe and spoke about the war in Ukraine, one of the topics that will also be addressed at the G7. During the press conference in Iceland Scholz stated that “Russia has lost its democracy” and that as the Council of Europe we should “keep bridges up with the representatives of another Russia and another Belarus” to keep “open prospects for a democratic and peaceful future”

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The Prime Minister of Canada has also arrived in Japan among the leaders attending the summit Justin Trudeau. For the Canadian politician it was a shorter trip than for the other leaders: Trudeau arrived from Seoul, South Korea, where yesterday he met President Yoon Suk Yeol in a bilateral summit

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Trudeau he is the “veteran” of the G7 summits. Canada’s prime minister, in office since late 2015, has Indeed participated in seven summitsonly skipping the 2020 one due to force majeure because the summit was not held that year due to the pandemic

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