The Prime Minister has so far had bilateral meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the event in Puglia. He was greeted warmly by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday morning with an embrace as they posed for a photo to mark the summit’s start. Asked whether he was being snubbed, Mr Sunak emphasised that though he has not held bilateral talks with the other G7 leaders from the US, Italy, France, Germany, Canada and Japan, he has held meetings in the margins.
Mr Sunak said: “We’ve been here a half a day already and I sat down with a bunch of people I need to in the margins. That’s kind of how these things work. “So, I’ve already sat down with Emmanuel [Macron], spoken to Olaf [Scholz] about a bunch of things, and you can do that – the benefit of these meetings because they’re small, because it is only the G7 obviously plus the EU, is that you have the time and the ability to talk to people in small groups, one on one.
That’s the beauty of summits like this, actually the intimacy of them.” Asked if he had apologised to Emmanuel Macron for leaving D-Day commemorations early last week, he said he had had a “very good meeting” with the French president The G7 countries have agreed to fund a 50 billion US dollar (£39 billion) support package for Ukraine that uses the profits of assets seized from Russia. “The money is provided by the G7 as a loan and then secured against t.
