On March 21, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrived in Ukraine on an unannounced visit. This is the first visit by a Japanese head of government to a country or region where fighting continues since World War II. Fumio Kishida went to Ukraine from India, where he said that Russian aggression led to a paradigm shift on the world stage. The Japanese prime minister flew to Poland, where he boarded a night train to Kyiv in Przemysl. In the capital, he will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, thus becoming the last leader of the G-7 club to visit Ukraine.
The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that Kishida “to express solidarity and unwavering support to Ukraine”, and “respect for the courage and resilience of the Ukrainian people, who stood up to defend their homeland”.
The day before, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Tokyo. During the talks, they discussed preparations for the G-7 summit, which will be held in Kishida’s home district of Fumio in Hiroshima on May 19-21, Kyodo News reports. Then the Prime Minister of Japan said that his country would closely follow the progress of the investigation of the International Criminal Court on Russian President Putin in connection with possible war crimes. Scholz also congratulated the issuance of an arrest warrant by the ISS for Putin over the Russian leader’s likely role in war crimes, including allegations that Moscow forcibly deported Ukrainian children to Russia during the war against Ukraine.
At a joint press conference with Scholz after the meeting, Kishida Fumio said that both agreed that they would never accept Russia’s threat to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, but at the same time they pledged to extend sanctions against Moscow.
Recall that Chinese leader Xi Jinping met in Moscow with the President of Russia.
Source: Fakty
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