A recent meeting of G7 countries' ministers of foreign affairs took place recently in Hiroshima, Japan, which included major industrial countries like US, Britain, Germany, Italy, France, Canada and the host country, Japan. It led to issuing a joint statement on their agreement on a number of regional and international issues including terrorism, refugees and North Korea's nuclear issue. This agreement is highly important to discuss complicated, unsolved and multiparty and interest-conflicting international issues.

The meeting tended to prioritize combating terrorism, and the statement issued afterwards condemned the recent terrorist attacks in Turkey, Belgium and other places worldwide and called for setting an agenda for the group in view of the recent North Korean nuclear experiment, which was deemed dangerous and provocative.

The G7 also considered the refugee and immigrant influx at the highest rates since World War II and agreed that this called for decisive reaction from the international community. The group also declared its stance on Syria and Iraq and discussed various other topics such as climate change, fighting corruption, combating drugs and international health, that all required decisive stands.

What matters is really making decisive and applicable decisions as soon as possible, especially over refugees, especially since some group members can reduce regional disputes by supporting or countering them. An immediate international measure has become urgent for issues that cannot hold out any longer, such as international assaults or crimes that involve fear that crime traces might be lost or that those committing them might hide evidence.

The other major thing is avoiding contradiction and double standards when international justice is required as represented by the statue of the blindfolded woman carrying the scale of justice without any prejudices, especially when international decisions are needed.

By Labeed Abdal

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