Tokyo - G7 support for Ukraine in its war with Russia won't be affected by the enhancing Middle East conflict, Japan said on Tuesday as the group's foreign ministers prepared to hold virtual addresses with Kyiv during a meeting in Tokyo.
The Group of Seven( G7) nations- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States- as well as the European Union, meet in Tokyo on Nov. 7- 8 to bandy issues including Russia's war in Ukraine and the Israel- Gaza extremity.
" Our commitment to continue strict warrants against Russia and strong support for Ukraine has not wavered at each, indeed as the situation in the Middle East intensifies," Japan's foreign minister Yoko Kamikawa told a press conference.
At a meeting with Kamikawa latterly on Tuesday,U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken emphasised the group's" enduring support" for Ukraine as a crucial item on the docket for the addresses, but also said it was an important moment to come together on the Israel- Hamas war.
The G7 is due to hold an online meeting with Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Wednesday. G7 countries honor that Russia is settling into its war in Ukraine for the longer term and this requires enduring military and profitable support for Kyiv, an elderly U.S. functionary said after the bloc's foreign ministers met in September.
The group has been at the van of warrants on Russia since Moscow raided Ukraine in February 2022, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy making a surprise appearance at the G7 leaders peak in Hiroshima in May.
In the rearmost move aimed at turning the profitable screws on Russia, the group is importing up proffers to put warrants on Russian diamonds.
Japan also said on Tuesday that it would take an necessary megahit from U.S. warrants on the Arctic LNG 2 design in Russia, in which Japan companies Mitsui & Co( 8031. T) and JOGMEC hold a combined 10 stake.
Chancing its voice on Ukraine appears to have proved easier for the G7 than diving the spiralling Israel- Gaza extremity which has claimed thousands of lives and threatens to unmask into a indigenous conflict.
Since the war erupted, the G7 has issued just one common statement on the conflict, amounting to a many rulings. Other group members have issued separate statements.
In Tokyo, the G7 plans to convey the need for a pause in fighting and allowing philanthropic access to Gaza, which has been bombarded by Israel in retribution for an attack by Hamas zealots on southern Israel on Oct 7 that killed 1,400 people, Kamikawa said.
Health officers in Gaza say further than 10,000 Palestinians, substantially women and children, have been killed so far by the Israeli bombing.
Also on Tuesday, Kamikawa, Japanese Defence Minister Minoru Kihara, and their British counterparts attended a meeting where they reiterated that the two.