UK’s Johnson, Trump, discuss potential of G-7 meeting

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed possibility Friday of meeting in person at upcoming G-7 garing in United States — a session called into question by global COVID-19 pandemic.

Trump said last week he’s considering holding a meeting in U.S. with leers of world’s major ecomies after all. Trump h scheduled Group of Seven summit for June 10-12 at Camp David, presidential retreat in Maryland.

n in March, he canceled annual meeting because of pandemic and said that leers would talk by video conference inste.

anuncement was latest effort by Trump to signal to nation that U.S. ecomy is getting back up to speed after shutdowns meant to slow spre of COVID-19.

Johnson’s Downing Street office said in a statement Friday that two leers also discussed importance of international cooperation to develop a vaccine for new coronavirus, in hopes of restoring some sense of rmalcy to global affairs.

Johnson invited Trump to take part in Global Vaccine Summit that UK is hosting on 4 June.

two leers also deunced China’s plan to impose national security legislation on Hong Kong, describing it as undermining Hong Kong’s automy and “One Country, Two Systems” framework.

China officially ratified a plan Thursday to write a national security law for Hong Kong that would outlaw secession, subversion and foreign interference in semi-automous territory. Critics say move, which follows months of often-violent protests in city, will effectively put an end to core values that set former British colony apart from rest of China.