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MNI BRIEF: G7 Leaders' Will Commit To Econ Support: EU Source

No Brussels Concerns Over Working With UK's G7 Presidency Despite 'Irritants'

BRUSSELS (MNI)

G7 leaders will commit to support for the global economy to ensure speedy recovery as well as to support for an international system based on rules and reform of the WTO when the meet via video conference on Friday, a senior EU official told MNI. The EU will also push the idea of a global Treaty on Pandemics, to improve "transparency, preparedness and anticipation of pandemics," the source added.

Despite recent signs of difficulties in the relationship between London and Brussels and the UK's failure to recognise the EU's diplomatic status, the EU insists it can work with well with the UK presidency of the G7 in 2021. "We have some irritants, but we expect London to come to a solution on these," the source said.

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