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Trump departs early from G7 in anticipation of meeting with Kim

Saturday, 09 June 2018 6:40 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 09 June 2018 6:44 PM ]

US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One prior to departure from Canadian Forces Base Bagotville in Canada, June 9, 2018. (Photo by AFP)

US President Donald Trump has left the Group of Seven (G7) industrial nations‘ summit early in anticipation of the meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore on Monday.

Shortly before leaving the summit in Canada on Saturday, Trump claimed his fellow G7 leaders were ready to deprive the Iranian nation from the right to have nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

"G7 nations remain committed to controlling Iran's nuclear ambitions," said Trump, who has pulled out of the internationally-negotiated Iran nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

All other signatories in Europe, and Russia, remain committed to the deal.

PressTV-Russia's Putin reaffirms commitment to JCPOA

The Russian president reaffirms Moscow's readiness to remain committed to the Iran nuclear deal.

Meanwhile, the world is focussed on the June 12 summit in Singapore.

Trump is expected to demand that North Korea abandon its nuclear weapons program that now threatens the United States.

PressTV-North Korea says has full nuclear force, can hit all of US

Pyongyang confirms it is now a completely nuclear state and that its newly tested intercontinental ballistic missile is capable of reaching anywhere in the United States.

Pyongyang has agreed with the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, including both the North and South, rejecting giving up its arsenal unilaterally.

Trump said that any agreemt between him and Kim will be “spur of the moment”, underlining that the outcome of the summit is yet uncertain.

"I have a clear objective, but I have to say - it's going to be something that will always be spur of the moment," Trump said at a news conference at the G7 summit in Quebec.

The busniessman-turned-president told reporters that he would know within a minute whether something good would come out of the summit and was overall optimistic about the event.

Trump wants Russia back in

Before leaving Quebec for Singapore, Trump made a fresh call to the other for Russia to rejoin the G7.