It was a pretty lukewarm response when it comes to some of these key nations,
India, Indonesia as well as Brazil. On the topic of Ukraine.
Yeah, that's right. I mean, look, the G7 is pretty much in
unison on its response and it's been allocated in the communiques.
But at the finance ministers meeting, the foreign ministers meeting of the G7
and now at the leaders meeting essentially that they condemn Russia's
quote unquote, illegal war in Ukraine. So the G7 in itself is in unison.
But again, Prime Minister Kishi, as the host of the G7 summit in Hiroshima over
the weekend, did invite those so-called global south nations, whether it's
Brazil, India, Indonesia, Vietnam was also, as you can see on your screen
here, a so-called middle ground countries.
And I'm not going to put Australia necessarily in that middle ground
country list. But again, middle ground countries that
have not necessarily taken specific sides condemning Russia or supporting
Ukraine and the like. So this opportunity was for the G7 to go
broaden their unison and bring in these other nations to support the
condemnation of Russia. Well, I'm not saying it backfired by
bringing in the Lenski. I mean, Zelinsky took the opportunity.
He flew from the Arab League summit in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia to Hiroshima late
Saturday and spent most of Sunday either, you know, meeting directly with
G7 meters leaders as well as those other middle ground countries.
He met with Modi. He met with Jokowi.
He did not meet with Lula da Silva, though, that those efforts to get those
two gentlemen together in the room failed at the last minute.
Brazilian officials telling us and I was there at the G7 as well, were telling us
that some of the some of the Brazilian
delegation felt that it was a bit of a trap to have Zelinsky there and to to
essentially force a meeting between Lula da Silva and Zelinsky, because many, you
know, outside of the G7, not many, but some nations feel that the G7 has taken
a side and that is not helping towards finding a peaceful solution in Ukraine.
So steep. All your interviews, all your
conversations on this side. How do you gauge
what the G7 nations are feeling or what these invited attendees from the global
south? Ah, ah, ah.
Well, what is their feeling about this push to get them to come over, you know,
pull away from Russia, pull away from China and be beyond bored with us?
Well, I think the people that we spoke to that are within the G7 felt that
there seems to have been some movement, especially with Zelinsky arriving on
Sunday. And it did change the dynamic.
Obviously, they they had the opportunity to meet face to face with the LINSKY and
some like the German delegation. Others felt that there was a bit of a
move from those so-called middle ground countries that had just talked about to
have a little bit more alignment, if you will.
But again, there is still a hesitancy. India is one key, key, key country,
obviously, there in the quad security agreement with the United States,
Australia, Japan. But at the same time, they buy the bulk
of their military weapons from Russia. Also, Jokowi of Indonesia has been
fairly middle of the road. He wants to find a peaceful solution
rather than taking sides. And Lula da Silva, we know his comments
as well, similar to Jacoby's. Did this move the needle, having
Zelinsky right there within the other G7 ministers?
It didn't move the needle on that because they're all in unison and
wouldn't were not necessarily feeling that those global south key countries,
Brazil, Indonesia, India, which make up one quarter of the world's population.
Whether this move backfired or move the needle.
We have to see.