Ramaphosa to attend G7 summit in Germany
President Cyril Ramaphosa will travel to Germany on Sunday for the G7 summit.
The Group of Seven leading economic powers — the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan — are set to hold their annual gathering from Monday.
The Presidency says South Africa is one of five non-member states that have been invited to the summit.
“Germany has indicated that it will seek to strengthen the G7’s responsibility for working towards ‘the global common good’, thus expanding cooperation with all partners, especially within the framework of the United Nations and the G20, based on a fair and rules-based multilateral system,” it said in a statement on Saturday.
War, climate change, hunger, poverty and health will be on the agenda of the G7 summit.
Collectively, the G7 countries represent approximately 40% of global gross domestic product and 10% of the world’s population.
