G7 hostingGermanyAs a group of seven major economic powers preparing to hold an annual rally in the Bavarian Alps, about 4,000 people Protesters gathered in Munich.This year, I will take turns in the presidency.
Organizers want to mobilize up to 20,000 protesters in the city of Bavarian and are disappointed by the low attendance at the Teresienwiese Park in Munich, Germany. Reported by the press agency dpa.
One of the organizers of the protest, Uwe Hiksch,during thewar in Russia's Ukraine, potential participants challenge the world's wealthiest democracy. Theorized that may be considered inappropriate.
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"We have the impression that many people are worried about the war in Ukraine," Hiksch told dpa.
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Seven years ago, when G-7 held a summit at the same location in Bavaria, 35,000 people participated in the protest. Did.
G-7 leaders (US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan) will arrive in Germany on Saturday afternoon. The agenda of their summit includes issues such as Russia's Ukrainian War, climate change, energy, and the impending food security crisis.
"Russia's brutal war against Ukraine is also affecting here," German Prime Minister Olav Schortz said in a video podcast on Saturday about rising prices for food, gas and energy.
Critical to globalization An international Attach network to 15 groups, the environmental group WWF, has called on people to attend a demonstration of this weekend's summit.
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Their demands are the phasing out of fossil fuels, the maintenance of flora and fauna diversity, social justice, Gradual-Battle against hunger.
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"My demand for the G7 is the transfer of energy, the escape from fossil fuels, to all forms. We have a clear commitment. By 2035 at the latest, we can stop funding wars and conflicts, "said Kilian Wolter of the Environmental Group Greenpeace.
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Last Saturday, another protest Oxfam demanding more global equality members of the poverty alleviation organization wore an oversized head of the G-7 leader.
"We need concrete action to deal with the multiple crises of our time," Oxfam spokesperson Tobias Housechild told AP. "That is, the G-7 must act immediately. They must fight hunger, inequality and poverty."
A total of about 18,000 police officers summit Located around the site and protests.
Mr. Schortz said that G7 leaders would discuss the current situation caused by the war in Ukraine and at the same time "make sure to stop anthropogenic climate change."
The Prime Minister was scheduled to welcome leaders at the Elmau Resort near Garmish-Partenkirchen on Saturday night.
The G7 Summit itself will be held from Sunday to Tuesday in Elmau, Bavaria. At the end of the meeting, leaders from 30 NATO Alliance countries will meet to attend the annual summit in Madrid from Wednesday to Thursday.
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