U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet G7 foreign ministers in Paris on Monday to discuss Iran, Ukraine, energy and artificial intelligence, following Republican losses in the midterm elections.
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet his counterparts from the Group of 7 industrialized democracies in Paris on Monday, with unresolved world crises on the agenda and questions about how President Donald Trump will approach foreign policy after his Republican Party’s massive losses in the midterm elections.
Two days of talks among the U.S., Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan in Paris coincide with major protests across Europe, including in the French capital. The Russia-Ukraine war, the Iran conflict, energy and artificial intelligence are among the main topics for discussion. The French hosts have invited Brazil, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Ukraine to participate in some of the discussions. The French Foreign Ministry said there will be a meeting on artificial intelligence and a separate session on support for Ukraine.
Trump has floated the idea of a partnership with Europe to bring Russia’s war in Ukraine to an end. The president’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner, are set to meet both Ukrainian and Russian officials in Abu Dhabi this week to discuss potential compromises. Rubio said postwar security guarantees for Ukraine and the rest of Europe have been a top concern for allies. “There’s been some advances made in what that architecture could look like post-conflict,” Rubio said in Florida before flying to Paris. “Nothing’s been finalized yet, and maybe some progress can be made in Abu Dhabi.”
At the same time, Qatari and other mediators have proposed an interim solution to end the deadlock over the conflict with Iran that has sent fuel prices soaring amid instability in key shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea. Rubio said the sides are not “at the verge of a breakthrough,” while reiterating that Trump prefers a diplomatic solution. But he noted of diplomacy that “right now, it hasn’t been very productive because the Iranian demands are simply not just unacceptable.”
The trip is Rubio’s first foreign venture since the midterm elections dealt Trump’s party severe losses and cost the GOP control of Congress, partly because of deeply unpopular policies like the Iran war. Asked about allies wanting to know what comes next after the elections, Rubio told reporters that the countries he is meeting with this week understand American politics and “they, too, have experienced divisions in government and divisions in their own system.”
The G7 meetings follow a larger diplomatic gathering that Rubio hosted in Atlanta just over a week ago for G20 foreign ministers — a meeting that produced little consensus on any major global issues. The French have already signaled that the G7 meeting also will not produce a joint communique.
The meeting brings together top diplomats from the world’s biggest industrialized democracies to address ongoing conflicts and AI cooperation, while allies seek clarity on U.S. foreign policy direction following the midterm elections.
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