Italy's foreign minister Luigi Di Maio is attending a two-day G7 trade ministers meeting in London through Friday, which is being chaired by Britain, according to a foreign ministry statement.
Trade ministers attending the G7 meeting will also hold bilateral talks on its sidelines, the statement said.
The G7 meeting will be split into working sessions on some of the main trade-related international issues including trade and labour, trade and the environment, fair competition and digital commerce as well as the prospects for the upcoming 12th WTO Ministerial Conference.
The 12th WTO Ministerial Conference being held in Geneva from 30 November to 3 December aims to relaunch the multilateral trading system to support a robust recovery of the world economy in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, said the statement.