G7 summit in Brussels 2014

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40th G7 summit
place BelgiumBelgium Brussels , Belgium
Beginning 4th June 2014
The End 5th June 2014
Participants from the G7
FranceFrance France François Hollande
CanadaCanada Canada Stephen Harper
GermanyGermany Germany Angela Merkel
ItalyItaly Italy Matteo Renzi
JapanJapan Japan Shinzo Abe
United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom David Cameron
United StatesUnited States United States Barack Obama
International organizations
EuropeEurope European Union José Manuel Barroso
Herman Van Rompuy
← Special meeting 2014 → 2015

The 40th G7 summit took place from June 4-5, 2014 in the Belgian capital, Brussels . The G8 summit in Sochi was originally planned in Russia in 2014 , but due to the Crimean crisis and the subsequent suspension of participation in the G8 by the G7 states, it was canceled and the G7 summit in Brussels was announced instead. It was the first G7 summit that did not take place in a G7 country (and Russia), as the G7 summits run in a cycle and Belgium should serve as a placeholder in the final G8 cycle for Russia.

Apron

At the beginning of March 2014, the heads of state and government of the G7 states, as well as the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission, announced that they would end all preparations for the G8 summit in June. This was justified with the "violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine by the Russian Federation" in the context of the Crimean crisis .

G7 representative in The Hague

On March 24, 2014, a meeting of the heads of state and government of the G7 took place in The Hague on the sidelines of the 3rd Nuclear Security Summit, see G7 special meeting in The Hague 2014 . The subsequent statement said that because of the "illegal attempt by Russia to annex Crimea in disregard of international law and specific international obligations", the G8 summits would in future be continued without Russia in the G7 format and would instead meet in June in Brussels.

Results

Global goals were formulated during the summit. Due to the increased global growth of 3.6 percent according to the IMF , they want to achieve more employment. In addition, initiate a new climate protection agreement and advance development policy. In addition, specific improvements for the employment of women and investments for small and medium-sized enterprises were mentioned, as well as the opening of further international markets and the free trade agreement with the USA and Asia. With a view to the climate conference in Paris in 2015, the global energy supply should be advanced.

Ukraine crisis

In a joint declaration on the Ukraine crisis , the heads of state and government threatened further sanctions against Russia . At the same time, they called on the Russian leadership to recognize the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko , to prevent a further transfer of separatists and weapons from Russia to Ukraine, guarantees for the continued supply of gas and a withdrawal of the Russian army units from the Russian-Ukrainian border. The G7 states have announced that they will continue to work with Ukraine to "support its economic development, sovereignty and territorial integrity". The country was encouraged to undertake further economic reforms.

Energy security

The heads of state and government announced that they want to free their countries from existing dependencies on Russian gas supplies. In future, therefore, liquefied gas imports should be increased, gas storage facilities enlarged and pipelines expanded. The summit thus confirmed previous agreements by the G7 energy ministers . At the same time, emergency plans were announced for the upcoming winter in response to the possible throttling of Russian gas supplies to Western Europe. In this context, the International Energy Agency was asked to work out proposals to increase the security of gas supply.

Syria

The G7 states blamed the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the brutality of the Syrian civil war . The heads of state and government did not recognize Assad's proclaimed victory in a vote for the Syrian president in areas controlled by the Syrian government and declared the vote to be a "sham election". Assad has "no future in Syria," said the politicians, who once again criticized the veto by Russia and China in the UN Security Council, which prevented the International Criminal Court from being asked to investigate the Syrian government and Assad. At the same time, the G7 states called for the criminal prosecution of human rights violations by extremist groups among the Assad opponents.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ " Things are not going smoothly everywhere" G7 look at the global economy . Retrieved June 27, 2014.
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  6. ↑ Press and Information Office of the Federal Government: Press release number 58/14 of March 3, 2014: Statement by the G7 Retrieved from g7germany.de on September 24, 2014
  7. ^ Page of the Federal Government on the press release of the G7 special summit in The Hague 2014 of March 24, 2014 , accessed on February 7, 2015
  8. ^ Page of the Federal Government on the 3rd Nuclear Safety Summit , accessed on September 24, 2017
  9. ^ Page of the Federal Government on the results of the G7 summit on June 5, 2014 , accessed on January 1, 2015
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  12. ^ G-7 states are looking for a way out of Russian dependency. Ukraine crisis. zeit.de, June 5, 2014, accessed on March 25, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Ukraine crisis: G7 plan new energy supply without Russia. spiegel.de, June 5, 2014, accessed on March 25, 2015 .
  14. ↑ a b c G7 see no future for Assad. zeit.de, June 5, 2014, accessed on March 31, 2015 .
  15. ^ Bashar al-Assad wins presidential election in Syria. More than 88 percent. n24.de, June 4, 2014, accessed March 31, 2015 .
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