We, the G7 Finance Ministers, held a digital meeting on 8 December 2025, together with the Heads of the Worldwide Monetary Fund (IMF), World Monetary establishment Group (WBG), Organisation for Monetary Cooperation and Progress (OECD), and Financial Stability Board (FSB). We’ve got been moreover joined by Canada’s Minister of Vitality and Pure Property and Finance Ministers, or their representatives, from Australia, Chile, Mexico, India, and the Republic of Korea for components of the meeting.
We welcomed the present bulletins on the G7 Vitality and Environment Ministers’ Meeting that search to protected resilient present chains for important minerals. Regular and reliable present chains are essential to drive monetary progress and security, and we’ll proceed to collaborate with worldwide allies and enterprise companions to cut back single-source dependencies and strengthen our monetary resilience. We stay up for extra discussions on how we’ll create a extreme necessities market that may protected our present chains.
We agreed that the utilization of non-market insurance coverage insurance policies and practices to disrupt important minerals present chains can have important detrimental worldwide macroeconomic penalties. They are going to enhance worth volatility and undermine worldwide progress prospects and stability, competitiveness and nationwide and monetary security. We expressed deep concern with the making use of of export controls on important mineral present chains and devoted to work collectively to diversify and derisk present chains.
Reaffirming the G7’s unwavering assist for Ukraine in defending its territorial integrity and correct to exist and its freedom, sovereignty and independence, we welcomed an change from the IMF on the state of affairs throughout the nation and the newly launched Staff Stage Settlement. We’re going to proceed to work collectively to develop a wide range of financing decisions to assist Ukraine, along with doubtlessly using the overall price of the Russian Sovereign Belongings, immobilized in our jurisdictions until reparations are paid for by Russia, to complete the wrestle and assure a merely and lasting peace in Ukraine. Our movement will keep according to our respective licensed frameworks. We’re going to proceed to assist the Ukrainian authorities’ dedication to implement reforms, notably addressing informality, tackling corruption, and bettering governance along with throughout the state-owned enterprise sector. Together with completely different companions, we stand capable of assist a model new IMF program. We moreover stand capable of amplify the stress on Russia must peace talks fail. We agreed on the importance of sustaining Ukraine on the excessive of the G7 agenda beneath France’s upcoming G7 presidency.
We agreed on the importance of strengthening G7 coordination with worldwide companions and may proceed to bolster our collective security and resilience.
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