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WASHINGTON (dpa)
US President Donald Trump is in favour of expanding the Group of Seven (G7) leading Western economies to include Russia again, he told a journalist in Washington on Thursday.
"I would love to have them back," Trump said in response to a question from a journalist at the White House. Ejecting Russia was a "mistake," he said.
The G7 format of talks between the seven major industrialised nations has existed since 1975.
Russia became a full member of the group in 2002, and the format was called the G8 for 12 years.
In 2014, however, Russia was excluded shortly before a summit meeting planned in Sochi, Russia, after Moscow annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea. Since then, the format has continued to exist as the G7.
