Germany has rejected Trump's bid to bring Russia back into the G7

• Germany has rejected President Trump's suggestion that Russia should be re-admitted to the "Group of Seven" meeting of leading economies.
• Russia was expelled in 2014 after President Vladimir Putin annexed the Crimean Peninsula and backed a rebellion in eastern Ukraine.
• Heiko Maas, Germany's foreign secretary, said there was no prospect of re-admitting Russia until it had resolved the situation in eastern Ukraine and Crimea.
• 'As long as we do not have a solution there, I see no chance for this,' he said.
• Trump told Fox News in June: "It's not a question of what he's done. It's a question of common sense."
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Germany has rejected President Trump's proposal for Russia to be re-admitted to the "Group of Seven" meeting of leading economies.

Russia had been a member of the intergovernmental group — which comprises Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US — as an eighth member until its expulsion in 2014 after Putin annexed the Crimean Peninsula and backed a rebellion in eastern Ukraine.

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