Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will visit Vaux-de-Cernay in France from March 26 to take part in the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (FMM) with partner countries, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in an official statement. According to the MEA, Jaishankar will attend the meeting at the invitation of Jean-Noel Barrot, France’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs.
On the sidelines of the meeting, he is also expected to hold bilateral discussions with his counterparts from various participating nations.
The G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting is scheduled to deliberate on a range of pressing global issues, including the ongoing war in Ukraine, reconstruction efforts, maritime security concerns, and reforms in global governance systems, as per a background briefing by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. Providing details of the agenda, spokesperson Pascal Confavreux said the meeting comes soon after informal consultations held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly and will act as a preparatory stage for the upcoming G7 Leaders’ Summit.
“All this culminates in the preparation of the summit of Evian. It will take place between the 13th and 15th of June,” the briefing noted, adding that the discussions at the ministerial level would help shape the outcomes for leaders’ deliberations. Officials indicated that the meeting will focus on both immediate global crises and long-term structural challenges. “Obviously, in the way that we will try as much as we can, not only to have this informal gathering of what is generally speaking a G7 meeting, but also to have some concrete results,” the spokesperson said, stressing the importance of actionable outcomes.
