G7 will be ready to discuss Russia's return to the informal bloc, making it the G8 again, if there is significant progress on the Syrian and Ukrainian conflicts, the German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.
"The conflicts in Syria and Ukraine show that it is not in our interest to exclude Russia from a close negotiation format of the world's biggest economies… If there is at last substantial progress in eastern Ukraine or in the talks on ceasefire in Syria, G7 partners will be ready to discuss this question with Moscow," Frank-Walter Steinmeier told RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland news outlet.
