2023-05-17 16:51:00
With an unprecedented security operation, Japan prepares to receive the leaders of the G7 in a summit that promises to be “unusual” from the symbolic level and that will have several axes, among them the Russia nuclear threatthe expansion of China and the promotion of respect for the rules of international order.
From the outset, the message from the pro tempore president of the forum that brings together the seven industrial powers and special guests was forceful. The Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, chose the city of Hiroshima, that became a symbol for peace and reconstruction following the tragedy that followed the nuclear bomb that the United States dropped on August 6, 1945 and that put an end to the Second World War.
The timing was not accidental considering Russia’s constant threats to use nuclear weapons in the context of the conflict with Ukraine, something that is not alien to the only country that knows firsthand the disaster associated with this scenario of total destruction.
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Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine it will be one of the main topics that allies who share values such as democracy or the free market will discuss. The main axis will be nuclear disarmament. The idea of the Japanese government, with notable growth in international leadership in recent years, is to make visible the devastation that follows the use of nuclear weapons, a topic that is not out of date and that is breathed in the streets of the city located to the west of Honshu, the largest island of the Japanese archipelago.
This is how he endorsed it Takashi Ariyoshi, director of economic policy at the Japanese Foreign Ministry. “The international community is at a historic turning point“, he pointed out in a meeting he held in Tokyo with a select group of journalists from ten countries invited by the Japanese government, including PROFILE on behalf of Argentina.
From the sober government building located on Kasumigaseki street in the bustling Japanese capital, the official explained that the idea is once once more condemn the invasion of Ukraine, make a call for the respect of the rules of the international order. “We will reject any unilateral event,” she reinforced, guarding her words. To this he contributed Hideaki Ishii, Director of the Non-Proliferation, Science and Nuclear Power Division of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “The threat from russia to use nuclear weapons should never be tolerated“, he indicated.
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Other issues that will be on the leaders’ agenda will be the negative externalities of the conflict, such as “economic security” associated with inflation, the slowdown in post-covid economic growth, the energy and food crisis.
In addition, from the Japanese side they will bring to the table a project called “Free and Open Indo Pacific (FOIP)”. The proposal points to the changes in the international order, “global challenges and the “problems generated by scientific and technological advances.” Also to the rise of emerging and developing countries immersed in economic bottlenecks that drive them to new sources of financingbetween them China, of growing influence in various parts of the globe and particularly in Latin America.
The G7 summit in Hiroshima
This week Hiroshima became an armored city, ready to receive the powerful members of the G7, the group made up of Japan, the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and the European Union. According to official information, 24 thousand police officers from all over the country relocated to reinforce the operation during the summit that will be from May 19 to 21.
In recent days, the police and helicopter presence increased and was even arranged in tourist places such as the Parque de la Paz, where the Atomic Bomb Domeor the emblematic Itsukushima Shrine on the island of Miyajima, one of the places that heads of state and government will visit.
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The leaders of the G7 members will be joined by guests from regional powers such as the Brazilian president. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the capacity of president of the G20. other guests are South Korea, Australia, Vietnam; and heads of African and Asian regional bodies such as Indonesia (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), Comoros (African Union) and Cook Islands (Pacific Islands Forum).
On the other hand, representatives of international organizations will be present, including the United Nations Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), World Organization of Commerce and the International Energy Agency (IEA).
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