{"id":138856,"date":"2018-06-09T22:45:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T22:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/may-says-g7-will-act-over-russias-malign-activity\/"},"modified":"2018-06-09T22:45:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T22:45:49","slug":"may-says-g7-will-act-over-russias-malign-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/may-says-g7-will-act-over-russias-malign-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"May says G7 will act over Russia&#8217;s &#8216;malign activity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Theresa May at the G7 summit in Charlevoix, Quebec\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/1227D\/production\/_101956347_90aa5663-02a6-45e7-be94-1f89e1b02880.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Reuters                                                    <\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Prime Minister Theresa May has said the G7 will take further action against Russia if it continues to interfere with other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders were sending &quot;a clear message that such malign activity will never be tolerated&quot; after the poisoning of the Russia ex-spy Sergei Skripal, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs May also said the EU would impose countermeasures after the US imposed tariffs on imported metal products.<\/p>\n<p>But the prime minister warned against a &quot;tit-for-tat&quot; response.<\/p>\n<p>Before the meeting, US President Donald Trump had called for the G7 to re-admit Russia and also sparked fears of a trade war by raising tariffs on EU steel and aluminium imports.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs May said Russia needed to &quot;change its approach&quot; before being invited back into the group.<\/p>\n<p>It was expelled in 2014 in response to its annexation of Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs May welcomed the joint communiqu\u00e9 by world leaders, which criticised Russia&#039;s attempts to &quot;undermine democratic systems&quot;<\/p>\n<p>It also endorsed the UK&#039;s assessment that Russia was responsible for the nerve agent attack against Me Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury.<\/p>\n<p>While she warned against escalating trade tensions, Mrs May expressed &quot;deep disappointment at the unjustified decision by the US to apply tariffs to EU steel and aluminium imports&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There have been some difficult conversations and strong debates but by working together we have agreed an outline to shape a better future,&quot; Mrs May said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Reuters Prime Minister Theresa May has said the G7 will take further action against Russia if it continues to interfere with other countries. Leaders were sending &quot;a clear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}