 "democracy, politics, protests, dissent, free speech, freedom, human rights")
On June 13, the Group of Seven (G7) nations, which are advanced economies and liberal democracies, put out a sort of charter. The document was called the G7 and Guest Countries: 2021 Open Societies Statement. The G7 are the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and Italy plus the European Union, and the guest nations invited this time to the G7 meet were South Korea, India, South Africa and Australia.
The document says that all these nations reaffirm their shared belief in open societies, through democratic values and that they would embrace and encourage others to embrace these eight values, which
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