Priorities of the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Paris

Priorities of the Paris meeting

1. Help resolve crises and address major contemporary challenges 

The ministers will discuss conflicts and international crisis theatres, particularly support for Ukraine in terms of capacity, finance and energy, stabilizing the Middle East and diversifying and securing energy supplies, as well as Sudan, the Horn of Africa, Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti and the importance of a free and open Indo-Pacific region, founded on the rule of law. The aim is to build a convergence of views among partners to provide a coordinated response to crises. 

2. Step up maritime and port security to better fight drug trafficking

Announced at the Heads of State and Government Summit in Évian, the G7+ Ports Network will meet for the first time in Marseille, at the same time as the Foreign Ministers’ Meeting is being held in Paris. It aims to strengthen the exchange of best practices among members of the network when it comes to securing ports in G7 and partner countries in the fight against drug trafficking. 

3. Increase the effectiveness of humanitarian support

The ministers will continue to work on increasing the effectiveness and streamlining of humanitarian supply chains as well as food security and nutrition, in the presence of the World Food Programme’s Executive Director, Luke J. Lindberg.

4. Making artificial intelligence (AI) safer

Finally, AI security will be addressed, following on from the G7’s coordination work which began at the Évian Summit in June 2026 and at the UN Security Council in September 2026. AI is a technology which presents both opportunities and new risks. Amid an acceleration of frontier AI models that is completely changing the global strategic environment and threatening to undermine our collective resilience and security, the G7 must address this issue and provide a coordinated response to preserve innovation while ensuring safe AI development and deployment. 

Concrete action and greater collaboration beyond the G7

Throughout the year, France has been committed to making the French G7 Presidency a “presidency of balance, convergence and results” based on concrete projects to address the major challenges of our time. 

To make humanitarian assistance more effective, work was begun to map humanitarian stocks across the globe so as to respond more swiftly to emergency situations. 

To step up the reconstruction of Ukraine, G7 partners committed to supporting international fundraising for the restoration of the Chernobyl Containment Arch in Ukraine, which was severely damaged by a Russian strike in 2025. France will hold a donor conference in this regard on 9 November in Paris, with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Ukrainian authorities. 

To combat cross-cutting threats, the “No Money For Terror” Conference was held in Paris in May 2026 to better identify, track and curb terrorist financing. 

To bolster efforts to fight drug trafficking, the Regional Security Conference for the Caribbean was held in Martinique in July 2026.

France intends to produce tangible results on all of these topics to improve the security and prosperity of G7 countries, and therefore of France and its people.

That is why France invited Brazil, Egypt, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia and Ukraine to participate in the meeting to be held in Paris. These partner countries have been actively contributing to discussions and deliverables of the French Presidency since the beginning of the year.

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