Trump calls for adding India to elite G7 grouping

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump sought to expand the G7 to include India, Australia, South Korea and Russia, as he postponed the group’s summit the US is hosting to September or November. “I’m postponing it because I don’t feel that as a G7 it properly represents what’s going on in the world,” Trump told reporters. “It’s a very outdated group of countries.”

“We want Australia, we want India, we want South Korea. And what do we have? That’s a nice group of countries right there,” he said, skipping Russia. But he appeared to have suggested inviting Russia as well, according to reporters who travelled with him.