Published 11:33 IST, May 30th 2020

Angela Merkel declines Donald Trump's invite to attend G7 summit in Washington

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has declined the US President Donald Trump’s invitation to attend the possible G7 summit in June, international media reported.

Reported by: Riya Baibhawi
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has declined US President Donald Trump’s invitation to attend possible G7 summit in June, international media reported. Stating reason for her decision, German government spokesman Steffen Seibert, reportedly said that currently, federal chancellor was considering “overall pandemic situation” and could t agree to her “personal participation” to a journey to Washington. Merkel h, in March, gone into self-quarantine after coming in contact with a COVID-19 infected doctor.

'Would continue to monitor pandemic'

Elaborating furr, Seibert, however, said that German leer h thanked Trump for his invitation and would continue to monitor development of pandemic. Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump anunced a possible revival of “face to face “ meeting of G7 nations after earlier cancelling in-person garing in wake of coronavirus pandemic.  Taking to Twitter, American leer said that he was “considering” to reschedule G7 meet on “same or similar date” at Camp David, near Washington DC. In his tweet, he also reckoned that an in-person meet would be a symbol of “rmalisation”.

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Earlier in March, Trump cancelled a physical meeting of G7 leer scheduled to be held in June and held meetings on virtual platforms. 'emergency meet' heald on March 16 marked first time G7 leers came toger to discuss  efforts to defeat coronavirus. Trump h come under fire in previous meet as world leers me it clear that medical firms must share and coordinate research on Coronavirus vaccines rar than provide products exclusively to one country. This comes as Germany w has 182, 992 positive coronavirus cases and a death toll of 8,450. According to John Hopkins University coronavirus database, Germany has eighth highest number of coronavirus cases in world.

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11:33 IST, May 30th 2020