Foreign minister Anita Anand says she has drafted principles to reduce risk of regional spillover and wider shocks
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Canada is pushing for a collective G7 and Middle East approach to de-escalating the Iran war, including off ramps that might bring an end to the conflict, the Canadian foreign minister, Anita Anand, has told the Guardian.
In London to meet the UK’s foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, after of talks with the her Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, she said she hoped a G7 meeting chaired by France, this year’s president of the group, might start to build a broader collective approach to the crisis.
Europe and Canada have largely been left as bystanders in the US-Israeli bombing campaign that Iran has retaliated to with missile and drone strikes against its Gulf neighbours and threats to shipping in the strait of Hormuz. They are only now starting to coordinate their position.
