Merkel backs Macron's call for G7 talks on Amazon fires
by Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#4NS6D)
German chancellor 'convinced of emergency' but Brazil's leader accuses European leaders of colonialism
Angela Merkel has backed Emmanuel Macron's call to put the fires in the Amazon on the agenda at this weekend's G7 summit, after the French president said the situation amounted to an international crisis.
Steffen Seibert, a spokesman for the German chancellor, told journalists in Berlin on Friday: "The extent of the fires in the Amazon area is shocking and threatening, not only for Brazil and the other affected countries, but also for the whole world.
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