Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will travel to Japan to attend the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov confirmed on Friday.
“I will be there [na cimeira] Very important issues have been decided and, therefore, the presence of our president is absolutely essential to defend our interests and present clear proposals and arguments about the events that occur in the territory of our country,” Danilov explained, quoted by television. ukrainian. Suspilne.
The leader emphasized that Zelensky “will be where the country needs him, anywhere in the world, to solve stability problems,” the British public television BBC announced.
“Who would doubt that our president would be present [na cimeira do G7]Danilov asked.
Zelensky is expected to take part for the first time via video conference in a meeting today where he will update the G7 leaders on battlefield conditions and encourage them to step up efforts to curb Moscow’s war effort.
Japanese government sources told the EFE news agency that Zelensky should arrive in Japan on Saturday to participate, on Sunday, in a session dedicated to the war in Ukraine.
The Ukrainian head of state will also have bilateral meetings with the President of the United States, Joe Biden, and with the Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida.
If confirmed, it will be Zelensky’s visit to Asia since the start of the Russian invasion. G7 leaders today paid a historic visit to the Hiroshima Peace Museum and Park, the first city to be hit with an atomic bomb, in a gesture aimed at sending a message against the use of nuclear weapons, in the face of rhetoric from Moscow after the invasion of Ukraine.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was invited to the Hiroshima summit along with the leaders of other major developing economies.
The G7 countries, a group made up of the United Kingdom, France, Japan, the United States, Germany, Canada and Italy – the EU also has representation in the group – imposed unprecedented sanctions on Russia last year.
The United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom today announced new sanctions against Russia.
Washington will impose more than 300 new sanctions against “individuals, organizations, ships and aircraft” in Europe, the Middle East and Asia to prevent “approximately 70 entities in Russia and other countries from receiving goods exported from the US trade blacklist”.
The European Union will “limit the trade in Russian diamonds” as part of the sanctions against Moscow after the invasion of Ukraine, announced the president of the European Council, Charles Michel.
Hours earlier, the UK had also published new measures targeting Russia’s mining sector, including trade in diamonds, copper, aluminum and nickel.
Source: TSF
