<span style="color: #222222;">Foreign ministers from Group of Seven (G7) countries have called for a greater role for women in solving conflicts, saying that peace settlements with female involvement were more likely to endure.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The world's seven most developed nations, G7 ministers, at their meeting in the northern French resort of Dinard to prepare a summit meeting under French presidency in August, also called on greater mobilisation worldwide to prevent sexual and gender-based violence in conflict.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">According to the UN Women's agency, between 1990 and 2017, women constituted only two per cent of mediators, eight per cent of negotiators, and five per cent of witnesses and signatories in all major peace process.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">France has placed gender inequality at the heart of its presidency of the G7, though a plan to create a new mechanism to warn about sexual violence being used as a weapon during the war was not included in a final joint statement. Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that the countries had agreed a roadmap to adopt the mechanism.</span><br />''