A Japanese government official who joined G7 confirmed with Kyodo about the content, but details of the discussion were not disclosed.

In the telephone conversation a few days ago, US President Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, the host of the G7 host, reached a consensus on inviting Russia to return to the group conference in 2020.

Prior to this news, the Tass News Agency quoted the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying that the prospect of restoring the G8 mechanism is not Russia’s current goal, since the Moscow government thinks it is more important to solve it. many problems left in the G20.

However, Mr Peskov reiterated that Russian President Vladimir Putin once said the country did not reject the possibility of dialogue with other countries by any mechanism, according to Tass.

Founded in 1976, G7 is a group of developed economies , including the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Canada, America, France and Japan.

By 1997, Russia joined and the group became G8. However, by March 2014, due to a series of events involving Ukraine and a crisis in relations between Russia and the US and Europe, Western members decided to return to the G7 mechanism so far.