Tuesday, 04/07/2017 17:58 (GMT+7)
US President Donald Trump on July 3rd held discussions with Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italy’s Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni about the upcoming G20 summit in Hamburg on July 7th - 8th.
US President Donald Trump and Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel (Source: EPA/VNA)Trump and Merkel “addressed climate issues, the Women’s Entrepreneurship Financing Initiative and Trade, including global steel overcapacity,” the White House said in a statement following their “extensive discussion.”
“The President said that he looks forward to helping Chancellor Merkel make the summit a success,” it said.
The President also discussed the summit's agenda with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni in a separate call, while thanking the Italian prime minister for hosting the "exceptional G7 Summit in May."
Mr. Trump is preparing for the two-day G-20 summit that, just over a month after a G-7 summit in Sicily, showed deep divisions between Trump and other Western leaders on climate change, trade and migration./.
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