The first in-person meeting of the leaders of G7 nations in nearly two years will start on Friday in the UK, with the focus on the COVID-19 pandemic, global geopolitical risks, and climate change.

Axar.az reports citing foreign media that at the three-day summit in the coastal Cornwall region, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to call on the G7 leaders to cooperate in order to bring an end to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Over the weekend Johnson said he would ask his counterparts to commit to vaccinating the world against COVID-19 by the end of next year.

"I am calling on my fellow G7 leaders to join us to end this terrible pandemic and pledge will we never allow the devastation wreaked by coronavirus to happen again," he said.