June 17, 2026
Évian, France
“We, the Leaders of the G7, are committed to providing a safe digital space for our minors, which include children and youth under 18, for their development, for their education and for their well-being. Children and youth’s online experiences should be safe, enriching and
development focused. Digital service providers have the important role and opportunity to provide digital platforms which are safe-by-design, secure, privacy-preserving, age-appropriate and protective of children and youth, including by default settings. Parents, guardians and carers should be empowered to guide minors’ online experience, including through parental control tools. Partners countries of the G7, Brazil, Egypt, India, Kenya, and the Republic of Korea also support this call.Digital technology can play a positive role for our children and youth, societies and economies, through learning, expanding access to education and healthcare, fostering creativity and social connection. Parents, teachers and education systems should empower and equip them with the necessary skills and literacy to critically and responsibly engage with digital technologies, media and information. Digital education programs complement offline educational and social activities.
Despite these benefits, digital service can pose risks for children and youth. They can be exposed to illegal and age-inappropriate content and interactions damaging their mental health and well-being. The use of certain digital service that incorporate attention and engagement maximizing features that can lead to compulsive and habit-forming behaviours, as well as others risks have raised concerns.
Recommendation systems should, when used, be designed to elevate age-appropriate content and to reduce exposure to risks. Digital service should be designed to empower parents and minors with tools to be more in control of their experience and data through safety-by-design approaches, such as protective and by default settings, including parental control tools. Minors’ safety is ensured safeguarded by the implementation of risk management, assessment and mitigation.
We therefore call on all governments, digital service providers, public authorities where applicable and relevant stakeholders to prioritize the protection of children and youth’s physical and mental health, privacy and safety online.
- We call on digital service providers to develop and apply technology and systems that ensure safe, secure and age-appropriate experiences including through effective and innovative age assurance mechanisms while preserving the privacy of users according to respective jurisdictions, national circumstances and applicable legal frameworks. We support comprehensive risk-based approaches, and empowering parents and guardians through meaningful and easy-to-use parental controls tools and information. We welcome the G7 Common Set of Principles adopted by our ministers, and call for further action. In this regard, we will work to ensure a safe, age-appropriate experience online for children and youth through all relevant tools.
- While conversational artificial intelligence tools offer important opportunities for innovation, education and development, we recognise risks associated with children and youth’s use of conversational artificial intelligence systems, undermining their well-being and safety and reinforcing the need to build their critical skills to engage responsibly in digital space. It is important for providers to develop and apply safety settings by default for children and youth, including parental control tools and age assurance solutions, to make conversational artificial intelligence tools safer for children and youth, in a timely manner.
- Given the importance of helping children and youth to seamlessly distinguish authentic from synthetic content and to identify content provenance, we support ongoing efforts by the industry to strengthen the reliability, interoperability when feasible, effectiveness and robustness of their technical means. Digital service providers have a critical role to play in enhancing transparency through enabling an understanding of content provenance, promoting digital literacy and awareness to engage with digital technologies, media and information. We encourage continuous dialogue between G7 members’ governments, public authorities and digital service providers, as approaches to content transparency continue to be explored.
- We remain strongly committed to prohibiting the generation, the manipulation and the distribution of child sexual abuse material and criminal activity related to non-consensual intimate imagery, including deepfakes particularly when they involve children and youth, in accordance with national circumstances and legal frameworks. To contribute to the necessary prevention of these criminal acts, digital service providers must implement effective detection and removal measures on their platforms. The prohibition of such content as well as online grooming, sexual exploitation and sexual extortion, remains a non-negotiable principle in the development and deployment of artificial intelligence systems and digital service. Some of these harms, including non-consensual intimate imagery and sexualized content, may disproportionately affect girls and young women, affect boys and young men, and encourage self-harm.
- We are committed to preventing and countering the exposure of children and youth to violent extremism and terrorism online. Digital service providers should adopt appropriate safeguards and work collaboratively with law enforcement to reduce the targeting of children and youth and the recruitment, especially into organized crime including for drug trafficking and violent extremism. To this end, parents, guardians and carers should also be empowered to prevent these phenomena.
We recognise the benefits of sharing best practices, to produce coordinated and effective efforts, gathering a broad range of actors, including researchers, educational systems and digital service providers, and to work on the opportunities and impacts of digital service and artificial intelligence on children and youth. We are committed to fostering a research and scientific ecosystem capable of studying those benefits and challenges. Advancing scientific knowledge and evidence-based policymaking benefits from sharing of data, impartial evaluations and common standards in assessments methodologies of artificial intelligence models and algorithmic systems, to objectively evaluate impact on minors’ safety. In order to support an evidence-based approach, transparency and accountability are essential. We will work together with relevant stakeholders to support this research and evaluations. We welcome the G7 Common Set of Principles defining a safer and more secure digital space for minors adopted by our ministers, and ask them to meet regularly and to assess the progress of this work at the latest by the end of this year.
This call reflects the outcome of the discussion between G7 members, benefiting from productive exchanges of views with partner countries, Brazil, Egypt, India, Kenya and the Republic of Korea.”
June 17, 2026
Évian, France
We, the Leaders of the G7, reaffirm our commitment to multilateral cooperation to advance economic growth, resilience and development, to deliver shared prosperity. To this end, we aim to address the needs of and risks to, the global economy, and to strengthen engagement with international partners. Partner countries to the G7, Egypt, Kenya and the Republic of Korea, also support this statement.
Global economy
While the global economy already faces the lingering effects of pre-existing shocks and structural shifts affecting global trade and investment, we acknowledge that global economic uncertainty has heightened risks to growth. Pressures on energy, agricultural inputs and fertilizers supply chains have increased, affecting industries, farmers and households everywhere, particularly in the most vulnerable countries. We recognize that a swift return to free and safe transit through the Strait of Hormuz without any form of charges, and a lasting resolution to the conflict, are imperative to mitigate these negative impacts and support more balanced, durable and resilient global growth. We underline the importance of affordable access to energy and reaffirm our commitment to well-functioning, stable and transparent markets for energy and other commodities. We call on all countries to avoid arbitrary export restrictions, and emphasize the importance of secure trade flows. In particular, we underline the importance of energy trade in the current situation. We will cooperate on policy responses which should be temporary, targeted and fiscally responsible.
Looking ahead, these developments underscore the importance of strengthening the resilience of our economies through diversified, reliable supply chains and efficient energy systems. We recognize the importance of collaborating through relevant international organizations, such as the International Energy Agency (IEA), of close coordination between producer and consumer countries, and of cooperation with affected countries, including through the Partnership On Wide Energy and Resources Resilience Asia (POWERR Asia), to strengthen supply chain resilience and also with a view to safeguarding economic and price stability. In order to strengthen crisis management and mitigate the impact of crises, which could contribute to stabilizing energy markets, we encourage oil-importing countries to establish sufficient and effective oil reserve systems aligned with the International Energy Agency (IEA) 90-day stockpiling requirement while avoiding pro-cyclical effects. We also reaffirm our existing G7 exchange rate commitments. We note the growing recognition among World Trade Organization members of the need to improve the organization’s ability to respond to contemporary trade realities and Members’ interests. We call for constructive discussions to drive its meaningful reform.
We are committed to working together to achieve a balanced and durable growth that supports our economic security and resilience and creates benefits for all of our citizens. We reaffirm our shared concerns regarding non-market policies and practices (NMPPs) and their adverse impacts, including persistent market distortions, global structural excess capacity and resulting imbalances, harmful spillovers in global, regional and domestic markets and growing economic dependencies. We reaffirm that resilient and reliable supply chains are essential to economic security. We will continue to deepen exchanges to identify vulnerabilities affecting strategic sectors, including critical technologies, with a view to reducing excessive dependencies, improving the security and resilience of supply chains, and addressing the risk of technology leakage. We recognize the importance of engaging with countries beyond the G7, including emerging and developing economies, in order to broaden awareness of the negative effects of NMPPs and support informed and effective responses.
We call for strengthening of international financial institutions’ efforts, including those of the International Monetary Fund and Multilateral Development Banks, and underscore the importance of crisis preparedness, mitigation and management. We endeavour to promote macroeconomic stability, including by ensuring that the international monetary and financial system remains resilient, effective and well adapted to the evolving global economy.
In light of the rapid advancement of capabilities of frontier artificial intelligence models, we ask our Ministers of Finance and Central Bank governors, in coordination with financial supervisors and representatives of global financial institutions and tech companies, to further discuss emerging opportunities and potential risks arising from artificial intelligence, including in the financial sector, while considering implications for productivity and labour markets. We also ask the G7 cyber expert group to, as appropriate, enhance information sharing and identify best practices, in light of the recent developments regarding frontier artificial intelligence models. We also encourage further dialogue between cybersecurity agencies and relevant institutions in existing G7 groups. We intend to continue our efforts to support the preparedness of our financial system for the risks and opportunities associated with quantum technologies, consistent with the G7 central banks’ Quantum Technologies Working Group (QTWG) report, and remain committed to securing quantum supply chains.
Achieving balanced and durable global growth through a reduction of global imbalances
We note with concern that global imbalances have been persistent and have widened in recent years, creating risks for our shared objective of balanced global growth and financial stability. Since our last meeting in Kananaskis, our finance ministers, together with central bank governors, have initiated work to assess their drivers and the risks they create, and to develop options for addressing them. We acknowledge the efforts of the International Monetary Fund including through its research, policy advice and surveillance, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the G20 and the French Presidency’s G7 Academic Experts Group, to deepen our understanding of the drivers, main contributors and risks of growing and persistent imbalances, provide scenarios for adjustment and offer policy recommendations to promote rebalancing. Global imbalances can have adverse economic impacts, especially on the poorest countries, although most of them do not contribute to imbalances. We further acknowledge the importance of coordinated action to reduce growing and persistent global imbalances. Reducing global imbalances could facilitate achieving more durable and balanced growth.
Global current account imbalances stem in large part from underlying savings–investment dynamics. They can also be driven by national growth models, such as non-market policies and practices, as well as sectoral and fiscal policies. We confirm the need to address these large and persistent imbalances, which is of common interest for both surplus and deficit economies. Against this backdrop, we aim for specific policies promoting balanced growth and macroeconomic stability and encourage other countries to do the same. Delaying rebalancing through appropriate national actions may risk further fueling trade tensions and could lead to unwinding in a disorderly manner. On this front, coordinated action would be welcome. Countries with large and persistent external surpluses should strengthen domestic sources of growth. Depending on national circumstances, such growth policies could include lifting constraints on private demand growth; improving social safety nets; avoiding distortive policies with negative spillovers to other countries; removing barriers to higher productivity; and increasing investment.
Countries with large and persistent external deficits should undertake policies that include supporting domestic savings and fiscal consolidation. These actions would help to achieve balanced and durable global growth.
We call for further strengthening of the ongoing surveillance of external imbalances within the International Monetary Fund’s bilateral and multilateral surveillance framework, with more emphasis on forward-looking scenarios, and assessing the impacts on all economies, particularly emerging markets and developing economies. We also call on the International Monetary Fund and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to monitor and report on the contributions of domestic policy trajectories in major economies to global imbalances, in line with their respective expertise.
We welcome the Global Convergence for Growth Summit which took place on 11 June 2026. We reaffirm our common interest in converging with other large economies on the causes of large and persistent global imbalances and on the need to address them. We will continue these efforts within the G20 under the United States host year and in other relevant fora.
This statement reflects the outcome of the discussion between G7 members, benefiting from productive exchanges of views with partner countries.
June 17, 2026
Évian, France
Ukraine
“We, the Leaders of the G7, stand united in our unwavering support for Ukraine in defending its freedom, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. We reaffirm our solidarity with the Ukrainian population suffering from attacks on their critical infrastructure and cultural heritage. We commend Ukraine for its resilience and progress on the battlefield in recent months and emphasise there is now a new momentum.
To support and accelerate this new momentum, we agree to increase the delivery of air defence capacities, additional systems and interceptors, and long-range capabilities. We are also ready to consider extending to Ukraine the benefit of licenses to allow for an increase in Ukraine’s military production.
We stress the importance of energy resilience, on the basis of the needs and priorities expressed by Ukrainian authorities. We agree to provide further support to get the country through next winter.
We commit to increase the pressure on the Russian war economy. In this context, we will strengthen our sanctions on the oil and gas sectors. We consider this the right moment to proceed with additional measures, as President Trump has delivered a deal that we support in reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
Middle East
We recognise the breakthrough and the opportunity that currently exist in the Middle East.
We welcome the announcement of a deal between the United States and Iran, secured under the strong leadership of President Trump, with the support of mediating countries, which provides an historic opportunity to prevent Iran from acquiring any nuclear weapon and tackling the threats related to its regional and ballistic activities. We support and are ready to contribute to its implementation.
We reaffirm that the right of transit passage without restrictions or tolls is the bedrock of international trade. We agree that the multinational, independent, and defensive initiative led by France and the UK can play an important role to facilitate the resumption of maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz by protecting merchant vessels, reassuring commercial shipping operators, and supporting verification that all mines are removed.
We strongly support a robust and comprehensive diplomatic follow-on agreement to the Memorandum of Understanding secured by President Trump that can bring peace and security for all in the region. We underline the need for the negotiation to this end to address the threats posed by Iran in the region and beyond and ensure that they never obtain a nuclear weapon. We agree that such a negotiation would benefit from the contributions from relevant regional and international partners, including the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). We reaffirm that Iran will never obtain a nuclear weapon.
In Lebanon, we support, through an immediate robust ceasefire, the Lebanese leadership’s efforts to achieve the disarmament of Hezbollah and the monopoly of arms, and to protect Lebanon’s territorial integrity and sovereignty with the appropriate international security guarantees.
In Gaza, we will accelerate humanitarian and reconstruction efforts and the swift implementation of relevant political and security measures. We call for ending violence in the West Bank.
We commit to accelerate the diversification of energy supply routes in order to reduce global vulnerability to the Strait of Hormuz and to increase our energy stocks. We welcome the potential for Canada to deliver significant additional capacity to global markets in the coming years.
Indo-Pacific
We highlight the importance of a free and open Indo-Pacific based on the rule of law. We reaffirm our opposition to any unilateral attempts to change the status quo, in particular by force or coercion, in the East and South China Seas and across the Taiwan Strait, which should only be resolved peacefully through dialogue.
We express deep concern about North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs and reaffirm our commitment to the complete denuclearization of North Korea in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions. We urge North Korea to resolve the abductions issue immediately. We reiterate the need to jointly address North Korea’s cryptocurrency thefts and cybercrimes.
We welcome the Global Convergence for Growth Summit convened by President Macron on June 11th 2026, with the participation of China. We reaffirm our common interest in converging with other large economies on the causes of large and persistent global imbalances and on the need to address them. We will continue these efforts within the G20 under the United States’ host year and in other relevant fora.”
