G7 wrestles with Iran, Amazon fires and trade, but own unity shaky

G7 SUMMIT. G7 leaders and guests pose for a family picture with the Biarritz lighthouse in the background on the second day of the annual G7 summit in Biarritz, south-west France on August 25, 2019. Photo by ludovic Marin/AFP

The Iranian top diplomat didn't meet Trump, French diplomats said, but the presence of the two men in the same place at least sparked hopes of a detente. Just this July, the US government imposed heavy sanctions seeking to hamper Zarif's travel, and effectively banning him from the United States. "We work with full transparency with the Americans," one diplomat told reporters on condition of anonymity, despite US media reports that the White House had been taken by surprise.Trump, who will give a press conference before returning to Washington on Monday, proclaimed that the G7 summit was going"beautifully" on Sunday.

Trump has been less vocal on the issue. He also stands out from the rest of the G7 in his budding friendship with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a former army officer who has given freer rein to industrial farmers and loggers who have made the country an agribusiness power -- at huge cost to the environment.throughout the summit was trade and the US president's effort to force even close allies into hard negotiations on market access and tariffs.

But only hours later, Trump's spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham did a 180 degree turn, saying the president had been misunderstood and that his real regret was not to have raised tariffs on China even more strongly.

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