LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will host international and growth ministers from the G7 group of industrialised nations and from the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at a summit in Liverpool from Dec. 10 to Dec. 12, it mentioned on Monday.
The summit will deal with points together with financial resilience post-COVID-19, world well being and human rights, Britain’s Overseas Workplace mentioned in a press release.
Among the many ministers resulting from attend are these from Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia, it mentioned, including that it was the primary inclusion of ASEAN international locations at a G7 international ministers’ summit and this mirrored “the UK’s rising Indo-Pacific tilt”.
Britain holds the rotating presidency of the G7 in 2021 and has already hosted the COP local weather summit in Glasgow this month and the G7 leaders’ summit in Carbis Bay in June.
(Reporting by Estelle Shirbon; modifying by David Evans)
