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Joe BidenBiden on Trump’s acquittal: ‘The merit of the prosecution is not in dispute’ White House press officer resigns after threatening Politician reporter Trump condemning vote exposes Republican Party split MORE will join the leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) countries on Friday for a virtual summit focused on the global response to COVID-19 and efforts to rebuild world economies, a White House statement said on Sunday.
At the virtual meeting organized in the UK, Biden “will focus on a global response to the COVID-19 pandemic”, suggesting that the Biden administration will seek an approach to the COVID-19 pandemic that involves US allies in a more important role than the Trump administration, which withdrew the US from the COVAX effort led by the World Health Organization to distribute vaccines in less developed nations.
The Biden government pledged in January to join this effort, while promising to vaccinate 100 million Americans in the first 100 days after the president’s inauguration.
Further discussions with summit leaders will focus on the economic recovery from the pandemic, which left millions of people unemployed in the US alone, as well as the G7’s economic stance toward China, which the president promised to hold responsible for economic espionage and other issues. disputed commercials.
“President Biden will also discuss global economic recovery, including the importance of all industrialized countries maintaining economic support for recovery and collective measures to better rebuild,” says the White House statement.
“President Biden will also discuss the need to make investments to strengthen our collective competitiveness and the importance of updating global rules to address economic challenges such as those imposed by China,” he continued.
Friday’s meeting will be the first G7 meeting of the Biden presidency and the first time the group of allies has met since April last year.