G-7 foreign ministers' meeting to be held in Liverpool next month

A face-to-face meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized nations will be held in Liverpool next month, the British government said Monday.Britain, which holds the forum's rotating presidency this year, will invite countries from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations for the first time to a G-7 foreign ministers' meeting.The gathering will take place for three days from Dec. 10 in a sign of Britain's "growing Indo-Pacific tilt," its government said in a press release.Welcoming the decision, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told a Tokyo…READ FULL ARTICLE