Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said Thursday she's focused on working with Canada's peers to address global challenges as she welcomes her counterparts from the U.S., Europe and Japan to Quebec.

Ukrainian and US delegations held talks in Saudi Arabia for eight hours. The actions of the Ukrainian team were remotely directed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, says the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Heorhii Tykhyi in a Facebook post.

Foreign ministers of leading Western democracies meet in Canada on Thursday after seven weeks of rising tensions between U.S. allies and President Donald Trump over his upending of foreign policy on Ukraine and imposing of tariffs.