2023-05-20 02:40:20
G7 Participating Countries A total of 9 leaders are participating! ? why?
Seven major countries are participating in the G7 summit, but if you look at the group photo, there are nine leaders. why is it? In fact, the G7 Summit is a framework in which the EU (European Union) participates in addition to the seven countries of France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Canada. Because there are two people involved. In the group photo of all the leaders, nine people are shown in a horizontal row.
The first summit meeting of major countries was held in Paris in 1975 by six countries, and from the following year Canada joined to form the G7. After the end of the Cold War, the president of Russia also participated, and it was held as a G8 summit, but in 2014 Russia unilaterally annexed the Crimea peninsula in southern Ukraine, and Russia was excluded. rice field. On the other hand, since 1977, the EC = the chairman of the European Commission of the European Community at that time has participated, and since 2010, two leaders of the EU have been participating.
[Rules also apply to the order of group photos]
There are general rules for the order in which group photos are arranged. The president of the chair country is in the center, next to it is the “President” who is the head of state, and the “Prime Minister” who is the top executive. If the positions are the same, the one who took office earlier will line up to the right of the chair country. In this group photo, Prime Minister Kishida is in the center, French President Emmanuel Macron, who took office in 2017, and American President Biden, who took office in 2021, are on the right. The two EU leaders were President Michel on the far right and Chairman von der Leyen on the far left.
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