Angela Merkel: We are still negotiating with US about Paris Agreement

World leaders have arrived in the German city of Hamburg for the two-day G20 summit which formally starts on Friday.

German

Chancellor Angela Merkel will be hosting the summit, saying

participants would address regulating financial markets, fighting

terrorism and pandemics, and combating climate change.

When

it comes to the Paris Agreement, she said: "We are still negotiating,

there are various options we can discuss, we know the US has withdrawn

from the Paris Agreement, all others or at least as far as I know, many

many others are still committed to the Paris Agreement."

"And how that turns out is something we will tell you at the end. When we have finish the communique," she added.

Chinese

President Xi Jinping will also meet with US President Donald Trump. Xi

said there could be no final G20 communique on the climate issue without

the United States being a signatory.