The G7 Summit is currently taking place in Charlevoix, Canada. The Group of Seven (G7) includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The leaders of the G7 group will further discuss Syria, Iran and North Korea, the French president said, Sputnik reported.

"We will have, this evening, a group discussion on North Korea — and you will have a very important meeting in Singapore — on Syria, on Iran," Macron told Trump in front of reporters in Quebec on Friday.

Meanwhile, Emmanuel Macron appeared upbeat about prospects on trade with the United States as he emerged from a bilateral at G7 Summit with President Donald Trump. "I think, on trade, there is a critical a path, but there is a way to progress altogether. We had a very direct and open discussion. And I saw the willingness on all the sides to find agreements and have a win-win approach for our people," he said, in a transcript circulated by the White House.

Macron has been fostering a special bond with Trump, paying a state visit to Washington in April and holding frequent phone calls. But he failed to get a waiver from US import tariffs. On Thursday, Macrons warned the duties could isolate Trump at the summit. Striking a more conciliatory tone, the French president said in Canada that, although sometimes he disagreed with the US leader, "we always speak and share, I think, common concerns and common values. And we share the willingness to deliver and get results together."

Trump, for his part, said he had a special relationship with Macron and they were working out a solution to the EU’s huge surplus in bilateral trade with the United States, after accusing the French president on Twitter of unfairly charging massive tariffs on US imports. The White House said in a press release that Donald Trump held a productive meeting with Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the G7 summit over issues related to trade, Iran, Syria and North Korea.

"President Trump had a productive meeting today with President Macron. They discussed trade, Iran, and his upcoming summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un," the release said on Friday. "Both leaders agreed on the need to address all aspects of Iran’s destabilizing activities in the Middle East, including in Syria."

Aliqismet BADALOV,

“Khalq qazeti”