Italy has a “big responsibility” in hosting next year’s G7 summit and it will be up to the task, said Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni after the meeting of the world’s largest so-called ‘advanced’ economies in Hiroshima, Japan, on Sunday.
Prime Minister Meloni speaking at the G7. (Photo: ANSA)
The summit will be held in the southern Puglia region, she added.
“Next year it will be Italy’s turn to host the G7, and we will do it in Puglia, a region that is symbolic of the meeting between West and East,” wrote Meloni on social media.
“It is a great responsibility for Italy, but we will be up to the task,” she added, posting a series of images from the G7 in Japan.
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