{"id":499810,"date":"2026-06-14T21:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T21:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/499810\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T21:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T21:44:08","slug":"mark-carney-says-iran-is-topic-number-one-for-g7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/499810\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Carney says Iran is ‘topic number one’ for G7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said he is encouraged by the progress that has been made towards a potential and more durable ceasefire between the US and Iran.<\/p>\n

In an interview with RT\u00c9 News, Mr Carney said tomorrow’s G7 Summit in France will focus on the most important issues for the world right now.<\/p>\n

“We’re encouraged, as we sit down, by the progress with respect to a potential more durable ceasefire with Iran, but what needs to be done to reinforce it?” Mr Carney said.<\/p>\n

“So that, in many respects, is topic number one, for the G7, and importantly, for partner countries from the Gulf who are coming,” he added.<\/p>\n

The Canadian prime minister said Ukraine will be the number two issue at the summit.<\/p>\n

“We know how this war is going to end and it is with a Ukrainian victory, and every day that it goes on is a tragedy in terms of loss of human life,” he said.<\/p>\n

Visit to Mayo ‘very emotional’
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\nOn his visit to Co Mayo, Mr Carney said ‘it’s always good to meet family’<\/p>\n

Mr Carney said his visit to Co Mayo has been filled with very positive emotions.<\/p>\n

“First off, I realised I have many more cousins than I had thought which is good.<\/p>\n

“It’s always good to meet family,” he said.<\/p>\n

He added: “Secondly, it’s just a very positive attitude.<\/p>\n

“The lesson of my family and my grandparents, is a familiar one, leaving during times of some difficulty, but retaining the values, retaining the ties, and then coming back and seeing how far Ireland has come.”<\/p>\n

Last year, before becoming prime minister, Mr Carney said he would renounce his Irish citizenship, something which was not required by Canadian law.<\/p>\n

“I wasn’t required to do it by law and there are millions of Canadians who have dual citizenship,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I just felt that it, as prime minister, as leader of the country, it needed to be straightforward and clear,” he added.<\/p>\n

Mr Carney said the action “doesn’t change my connection to Ireland”.<\/p>\n

“Certainly you can’t change your history and the lessons you’ve learned and the values you’ve learned from them,” he said.<\/p>\n

He added: “But sometimes in politics and life, it’s better to just keep things simple.<\/p>\n

“So, I renounced or returned the citizenship.<\/p>\n

“There was no malice in it. And, of course, the ties remain as strong as ever.”<\/p>\n

Canadian economy transforming itself<\/p>\n

Mr Carney has famously spoken of a “rupture” in the current global order and a need for smaller “middle powers” to form alliances.<\/p>\n

But is it realistic for Canada to shift away from the US when it comes to exports, against a backdrop of Canada entering a technical recession this year?<\/p>\n

He said: “In Canada, our April GDP figures were very strong and we’re creating jobs over the last year at twice the rate of the United States.<\/p>\n

“Foreign investment in Canada is twice the rate of the United States, far and away highest in the G7.”<\/p>\n

Mr Carney said the Canadian economy “is transforming itself”.<\/p>\n

“Now, you don’t transform overnight, but you do transform when the world changes,” he added.<\/p>\n

World Cup?<\/p>\n

Watch: Carney says Canada will beat US in the World Cup final<\/p>\n

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So, can Canada’s co-hosting of the World Cup with the US and Mexico help bridge current divides?<\/p>\n

“I think, yes, sport at its best, bridges those divides, and, you know, I’m sure the United States will take it well when we beat them in the final,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said he is encouraged by the progress that has been made towards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-499810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}