NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi reaffirmed on Wednesday that they will support Ukraine through sanctions against Russia.
“We want to further promote cooperation in various areas between Japan and NATO as partners who share core values,” said Stoltenberg in a statement released today by Japan’s foreign ministry following a meeting in Tokyo.
Stoltenberg and Hayashi said countries “with similar ideas and common values should come together and continue to impose sanctions on Russia and support Ukraine.”
Both further agreed to work and collaborate on the Indo-Pacific situation.
The NATO official is on his last day of official visit to Japan today, after meeting on Tuesday with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, to whom he pledged to strengthen ties between Tokyo and the Atlantic Alliance in light of the ” challenge” which represents the military peak of China and its rapprochement with Russia.
The NATO official’s Asian tour, who also visited Seoul between Sunday and Monday, aims to strengthen cooperation between the Alliance and key US partners in the region at a time classified as “a historic crossroads” and also “the most serious situation”. and complex security situation since the end of World War II”.
Stoltenberg also delivered a speech at Tokyo’s Keio University on Wednesday, where he said Russian President Vladimir Putin “made a serious mistake in underestimating the courage of the Ukrainian people, NATO and its allies.”
During his visit to Seoul on Monday, NATO’s Secretary General also held talks with South Korean leaders about ways to expand their security cooperation in the face of challenges from North Korea and China, Korea to send weapons to Kiev.
Source: DN
