Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said today (May 5) that he will participate by video in the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting currently taking place in London after learning that he had been exposed to a potentially infected person.
“I learned of my exposure to a potentially positive case of COVID-19 yesterday evening,” Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar tweeted on May 5, adding, “For reasons of caution and in consideration of others, I have decided to participate in video mode. . Today’s G7 meeting will be the same.”
Sky News reported earlier that two people in the Indian delegation had been diagnosed with the Chinese Communist virus and that they were currently in quarantine.
Although India is not a member of the G7, it has been invited to this G7 foreign ministers meeting.
A senior British diplomat said the UK deeply regretted that Su Jaisheng could not personally participate in the G7 meeting today. There are also British government officials revealed that the entire Indian delegation will be isolated autonomously.
U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said that the U.S. delegation to the G7 foreign ministers meeting will continue its activities as scheduled.
G7 member countries include the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Japan, Italy and Canada. But the meeting’s host country, Britain, also invited Australia, India, South Africa, South Korea, and the foreign minister of Brunei, the rotating chairman of the Eastern Association, to attend the meeting dinner, Britain said, inviting these countries shows, “the importance of the Indo-Pacific region to the G7.”
On the 4th, the British government released a statement in which the UK joined the G7 to take action against threats that could undermine democracy, freedom and human rights, naming countries such as the Chinese Communist Party, Iran and the Russian regime, and will also discuss the coup in Myanmar.
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