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US Secretary of State Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov are in the same room for the first time since July 2022, at a G20 ministerial meeting in India, where their Chinese counterpart is also attending. The delegates held a minute of silence in tribute to Turkey and Syria quake victims. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron takes part in a video conference with the heads of the G7 nations to discuss the conflict in Ukraine. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accuses China of "fuelling" Russia's invasion of Ukraine through the transfers of dual use materials and weapons components from Chinese businesses to Russia for use in Moscow's military expansion. "If China purports on the one hand to want good relations with Europe and other countries, it can't on the other hand be fuelling what is the biggest threat to European security since the end of the Cold War," Blinken tells a press conference after a meeting of G7 foreign ministers on the Italian island of Capri where he had urged urged his European counterparts to increase pressure on Beijing. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in Hiroshima, Japan, ahead of the G7 Summit where the heads of seven wealthy democracies are gathered to discuss tightening the screws on Russia's ailing economy as well as how to respond to China's growing military and economic power. IMAGES
India's foreign minister S. Jaishankar greets his Pakistani and Russian counterparts as they arrive for a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting in the Indian coastal resort state of Goa. IMAGES
G7 justice ministers stand together for a family photo at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann hosted the talks with his G7 counterparts, during which he said Russian missile strikes on energy infrastructure in Ukraine constituted a "war crime". IMAGES
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