From Hiroshima, the G7 announced new sanctions against Russia
- May 19, 2023
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G7 leaders put this Friday their refusal to use nuclear weapon during their visit to Hiroshima, the first city to be hit by the atomic bomb, and announced
G7 leaders put this Friday their refusal to use nuclear weapon during their visit to Hiroshima, the first city to be hit by the atomic bomb, and announced a new round of sanctions against Moscow.
Before the beginning 49 summit this forum in this Japanese city.
war Ukraine was the most prominent topic in that first day’s discussions, which was marked by confusion over possible aid to Hiroshima by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, given conflicting information provided by Kiev and G7 sources.
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Historical and emotional visit
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida wants nuclear disarmament to be one of the main themes of the summit he hosts, and to that end he led his G7 colleagues through facilities dedicated to commemorating the hundreds of thousands of people who died in the bombing by the United States. over the city on August 6, 1945.
World leaders have also met with “hibakusha” (survivor) from Hiroshima, Keiko Ogura, 85, who was eight years old when the tragedy occurred.
Ogura devoted much of his life to spreading his tragic experience of a nuclear attack, and recounted how that day the city became a “sea of fire” with ghost-like figures moving across it in an attempt to escape.
The leaders of the G7 are planning to express their will to achieve world peace in a joint declaration following the summit. non-nuclearalthough the foreseeable lack of concrete measures to achieve this goal has been criticized by anti-nuclear organizations and some voices in Japan, a country under the US nuclear “umbrella”.
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New sanctions against Moscow
On Friday, the G7 unveiled a new package of sanctions to force Russia to pay for the war in Ukraine and cut off its paths. finance an invasion and reaffirmed their commitment to supporting Kyiv at the financial, humanitarian, military and diplomatic levels in a joint statement.
This new wave of sanctions has been led by the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, which have detailed their new pressure measures, coinciding with the joint declaration, while EU member states (Germany, France and Italy) are preparing a new package of coordinated sanctions under 27, and Japan plans to announce similar measures in the near future.
The G7 leaders also stressed in the text that it is impossible to achieve “just the worldwithout a “complete and unconditional withdrawal” of Russian troops, and reaffirmed their commitment to the peace approaches put forward by the Ukrainian president.
Zelensky in Hiroshima?
Not present at the summit, and with his fundamentally scheduled telematic participation in meetings on the war in Ukraine over the next few days, Zelensky became the protagonist of the first day of the G7 meeting.
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The day alternated with information about the personal presence of the Ukrainian leader, who will travel to Hiroshima on Saturday and Sunday after Kishida’s reception in Kiev last March, as well as after his recent visits to other members of the G7. France, Germany, Italy and the UK to meet their leaders.
Zelenskiy himself announced today that he traveled to Saudi Arabia, where the annual Arab League Heads of State Summit begins, after official Ukrainian sources reported his planned trip to Hiroshima and later corrected it by noting that his attendance at the summit would be next Video conference.
However, other G7 sources continued to claim that Zelenskiy would travel to Hiroshima, so his presence remains unknown.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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