The future reintegration of Russia into the elite G7 group of the world’s rich nations has proved an explosive issue at a summit in France, with leaders divided over whether to allow Moscow back in after its 2014 expulsion.Russia was kicked out of what was then the Group of Eight as Moscow was holding its presidency after it annexed Ukraine’s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, a move never recognized by the international community.
However, Britain, whose ties with Russia hit a new low following the 2018 chemical poisoning on its territory of Russian ex-double agent Sergei Skripal which London blamed on the Kremlin, has spoken out against Moscow’s readmittance.
Diplomatic sources said the leaders agreed to be in favor of reinforcing coordination with Russia, but that it was too early for reintegration. But Macron said first a solution had to be found for Ukraine, where in addition to the annexation of Crimea, pro-Moscow separatists declared unrecognised breakaway statelets in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.
Ironically, Russia held the G8 presidency in 2014 but a planned summit in June of that year in the Black Sea resort of Sochi never took place as it was expelled from the group. The other seven countries instead met in Brussels.
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