Reading Aloud #004

G7 leaders recommit to global security

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[Pre-reading]

1. chairmanship: the position of being a chairman or the period during which someone is a chairman

2. counterpart: a person or thing that has the same purpose as another one in a different place or organization

3. Gaza: a polity and the smaller of the two Palestinian territories

4. resume: If an activity resumes, or if you resume it, it starts again after a pause

5. Hamas: Hamas, an acronym of its official name, the Islamic Resistance Movement, is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist political and military organization governing the Gaza Strip of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories

6. hostage: someone who is taken as a prisoner by an enemy in order to force the other people involved to do what the enemy wants

7. destabilizing: making a government, area, or political group lose power or control, or making a political or economic situation less strong or safe, by causing changes and problems

8. Hezbollah: Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group

9. militant: active, determined, and often willing to use force

10. Houthi: The Houthi movement, officially known as Ansar Allah is a Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged from the Saada Governorate of Yemen in the 1990s

11. rebel: a person who is opposed to the political system in their country and tries to change it using force

12. Volodymyr Zelenskyy: a Ukrainian politician who has been serving as the sixth president of Ukraine since 2019

[Reading]

Leaders of the Group of Seven nations have wrapped up the year under Japan's chairmanship. They held an online meeting led by Prime Minister Kishida Fumio on Wednesday.

Kishida said he will continue speaking with his counterparts in the Middle East about what is happening to civilians in Gaza. He and his G7 colleagues said they regret that military operations have resumed and that Hamas has refused to release all female hostages.

They want the Iranians to stop what they call "destabilizing activities," including support for Hamas, as well as Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and Houthi rebels in Yemen. They called for more humanitarian pauses and said they are committed to a two-state solution.

They also reaffirmed their support for Ukraine and invited President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to join their discussions.

Zelenskyy told them that the free world must help those whose freedom is under threat. His G7 partners announced they would ban imports of Russian diamonds. They added that they are committed to restricting exports of all items critical to Russia's military and industrial base.

The leaders looked ahead to the coming year, when Italy will take over as chair. They promised to press ahead with an agreement on artificial intelligence reached at their meeting in Hiroshima in May. They want to ensure that AI systems are safe -- and that they are used in a safe manner. [227]