At G7 Meeting in Capri, Blinken Tackles Rough Seas and Global Crises

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Rough seas were a fitting awesome for this week’s gathering of Group of 7 overseas ministers connected the Italian land of Capri. Coast Guard ships that ferried V.I.P.s crossed the Gulf of Naples to the land connected Wednesday swayed precariously, leaving the passengers reaching for their motion-sickness medicine — and, successful immoderate cases, their sick bags.

Though nary ministers from this elite planetary coalition, including Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, were known to person mislaid their lunch, the planetary problems they confronted were capable to marque adjacent a seasoned diplomat queasy: the hazard of warfare betwixt Iran and Israel, the nightmare successful Gaza and Ukraine’s uncertain fate.

At the luxurious Grand Hotel Quisisana, Mr. Blinken came determined to task unity wrong a radical that includes Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States and the European Union.

First created to assistance stabilize the satellite economy, the G7 has grown much progressive and ambitious successful caller years, seeking to signifier geopolitics and to beryllium “a steering committee for the world’s astir precocious democracies,” arsenic Mr. Blinken enactment it successful a closing quality league connected Friday.