The Apulian G7 opens to the global South: arrivals also from Africa and also from Argentina (in addition to the Pope, Milei will be there)

Participations in the summit of heads of state and government which opens on Thursday 13th in Borgo Egnazia, on the Adriatic coast

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ROME – The key word is “outreach”, English for “raising awareness” or also widening one’s range of action. A term, in the case of the G7 under the Italian presidency, which refers to a political-diplomatic action capable of overcoming the borders of the powers officially part of the forum. The confirmation of this ambition, underline sources informed about the summit of heads of state and government starting next Thursday, lies in the list of invitations issued in recent weeks and months: in the Apulian resort of Borgo Egnazia we there will be participants arriving from Africa and South America, as well as from the Holy See, with Pope Francis expected on Friday 14th for the session on artificial intelligence, one of the topics on the agenda, strongly supported by the Italian presidency.

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Therefore not only the G7 itself, the format born in the seventies of the last century to deal with the energy crisis and which today brings together the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada and France, with the addition of the Council and the Commission of the European Union. Among the countries represented in Puglia at the highest levels there will be Brazil, India and South Africa, the “troika” of the G20 which brings together a piece of the “global South”. A prominent place is then reserved for Africa. At the G7 there will be Mauritania, which holds the rotating presidency of the African Union, but alsoAlgeria, Kenya and perhaps Tunisia.

THE SPIRIT OF MATTEI

If the attention towards the continent should be accentuated in line with the spirit of the Mattei Plan, the horizon of the forum will in any case be global: this explains the invitation to Argentina, with the president Javier Milei< /strong>, another reference country in Latin America, which is also just a few weeks away from the elections in Venezuela scheduled for the end of July. The Secretary of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, also confirmed his presence. And always on the side of multilateral organizations there will be the African Development Bank, reference for the initiatives of the Mattei Plan, and thenInternational Monetary Fund, World Bank and OECD.