After a year of virtual meetings the G7 is the first time many leaders are seeing each other BBCLauraK looks at why this summit matters
This current cast of leaders, particularly with a new boss in the White House, has given the impression in the run up to this meeting that they want genuinely to work together as the pandemic, while still with us, begins to fade.Even in the age of video calls and instant messages pinging their way around the world, summits do matter, because leaders and their officials can talk face to face.
He was planning to leave early, without signing up to the form of words that the other nations wanted. So a small group of leaders themselves and a few key officials haggled face-to-face with the president and his powerful adviser, John Bolton, outside the formal meetings to do a deal. Summits have their own language too - the 'family photos' - the moments where the leaders have to take pre-appointed places for official snaps to be taken.
One very early morning in a hot, foreign clime when trying to get some sea air to wake up after only a couple of hours of sleep, I encountered a very prominent official on the beach who rather mysteriously had company at that time of day.
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