France, Nov. 9 -- The two-day meeting, relocated at short notice from Marseille on security grounds following weeks of protests across France, is taking place at the French foreign ministry's headquarters.

United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Paris on Monday morning, making his first overseas trip since the midterm elections in which Democrats won control of both houses of Congress.

He will meet with France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot along with his counterparts Germany's Johann Wadephul, the United Kingdom's Ed Miliband, Canada's Anita Anand, Italy's Antonio Tajani and Japan's Toshimitsu Motegi. Ukraine top of the agenda

The war in Ukraine is top of the agenda, and the G7 meeting comes ahead of talks between...