Question : The UK will host a summit of Foreign and Development Ministers from the G7 in December in the city of Liverpool. Who is Foreign minister of UK?
a) Antony J. Blinken.
b) The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss.
c) Golda Meir.
d) MOSHE SHARETT
Ans:b
Related Facts:
- Foreign Secretary Liz Truss to host her counterparts from the world’s leading economies in Liverpool.
- meeting in iconic port city takes place following global summits in Glasgow (COP) and Carbis Bay (G7 Leaders’ Summit) earlier this year.
- Southeast Asian countries, which are members of ASEAN group, invited to G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting for first time
- Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will welcome counterparts from the US, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan and the EU over 3 days, from Friday 10 until Sunday 12 December 2021.
- Highlight point of G7 :
- The G7 was born as a result of the huge economic problems facing the world in the 1970s.
- As the world reeled from the first oil shock and subsequent financial crisis, the heads of state and government of the six leading industrial countries met in 1975 for the first time to discuss the global economy.
- At the summit the heads of state and government of France, West Germany, the USA, Japan, the United Kingdom and Italy discussed the oil shock, the financial crisis and the ways out of recession.
- In 1976 Canada joined the group, which henceforth became known as the G7.