Zakharova announced the loss of G7 credibility

The G7 (the G7 includes Great Britain, Germany, Italy, the USA, Canada, France, Japan) has already completely lost its authority, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing.

“Today, the G7 has completely lost its authority, this once again confirmed the creation of the G20, because the G7 could not respond to the challenge of the 2008 crisis created by the United States. This crisis was caused by them and their shenanigans in the real estate market.” stated diplomat (quoted by RIA Novosti)

According to Zakharova, now the G7 members are engaged in “drawing” dividing lines in international relations, trying to impose their will on others and coordinating measures of pressure on “undesirable countries.”

“In general, they are engaged in political propaganda,” Zakharova concluded.

On April 20, Bloomberg reported that the G7 countries are considering imposing a near total ban on exports to Russia. The interlocutors of the agency explained that officials of the G7 countries are discussing this idea ahead of their summit on May 19-21 in Japan. If the G7 approves the corresponding decision, similar measures will be introduced by the member states of the European Union. Now, by default, any export is allowed, and restrictions apply only to certain products.

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov declaredthat the steps being discussed by Western countries to completely ban the export of goods to Russia can only lead to “an increase in the trend of the global economic crisis.” The Kremlin is “carefully” monitoring discussions of such a ban. Later, TASS, citing a high-ranking EU representative informedthat the G7 countries have not yet discussed plans for a complete ban on the export of goods to Russia.

April 25 Financial Times reportedthat Japan and the EU opposed the US proposal to introduce a complete ban on exports to Russia on the eve of the G7 summit. The American initiative was considered “impossible” by Tokyo and Brussels. Washington proposed to strengthen the current sectoral sanctions regime and almost completely ban the supply of goods to Russia, with the exception of agricultural and medical products.