The three-day Group of Seven summit resulted in a one-page statement, French President Emmanuel Macron said. China "expressly" dissatisfied.
"We agreed on a final statement on one page," Macron said at a press conference last night, adding that the statement speaks of the important topics they discussed, reports Tanjug.
According to the French leader, the situation before the summit was quite tense.
"I can't say that we thought we would be able to send a common message in a positive way," Macron remarked.
Before the summit, it was unclear whether the Group of Seven leaders would be able to agree on a final statement due to tensions among some of them. According to the French president, there were several versions of the statement so that the document would not be too general and superficial.
However, China is "expressly" dissatisfied
China said it was "expressly dissatisfied" with the G7 statement on Hong Kong, which called for the avoidance of violence in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory, after more than two months of demonstrations against the pro-Chinese administration.
In an address to the press, the spokesman of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Geng Shuang repeated that the situation in that former British colony is an internal issue of China and that no country, organization or individual has the right to interfere.
"We express our strong dissatisfaction and our firm opposition to the declaration issued by the G7 leaders regarding the events in Hong Kong," Geng said. China calls on G7 members to stop "hiding bad intentions, poking their noses into other people's affairs, and secretly preparing illegal activities."
In the final declaration after the three-day summit in Biarritz, France, the G7 leaders reaffirmed the existence and importance of the Sino-British Declaration from 1984 on Hong Kong and called for the avoidance of violence.
The declaration from 1984, on the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997, guarantees the autonomous status of that territory for 50 years according to the principle of one country, two systems. Demonstrators who have been protesting on the streets of Hong Kong for two months now accuse Beijing of gradually eroding the territory's autonomous status and threatening freedoms in Hong Kong. Geng said the 1984 declaration confirms that China will regain sovereignty over Hong Kong.
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