Embassy of Ukraine to Japan announces that on June 5-6, 2015, Prime Minister of Japan Shinzō Abe will make an official visit to Ukraine for the first time in the history of Ukrainian-Japanese relations.
“The visit of the Japanese Prime Minister to our state on the eve of the G7 Summit will become a powerful manifestation of firm and comprehensive political support of Ukraine. In the framework of the negotiations, the parties will discuss the entire complex of bilateral interaction in political, economic, scientific-technical and humanitarian spheres, topical problems of global and regional agenda and cooperation between Ukraine and Japan within the international organizations,” states Embassy of Ukraine to Japan.
As writes on his official Facebook page the director at Ukraine-Japan Center Yurii Kushnarov, Ambassador of Ukraine to Japan Ihor Kharchenko tells about the expectations of Kyiv on the historic visit of the Japanese prime minister – “Shinzo Abe’s visit on the eve of G7 Summit will be a powerful statement of solid and unanimous political support to Ukraine”
“The fact that Shinzo Abe visits Ukraine before the G7 Summit actually means that Ukrainian matters are essentially global today, and that Japan, as a responsible member of the international club of developed countries, understands it. As Japanese Prime Minister himself says, ‘today, the matter is not only in Ukraine,’ as the Russian policy on the post-soviet territory is a global challenge to the world order.”
“Japan supports Ukraine as the ‘Group of Seven’ member within UN and other international organizations.
Today we can say that in the Asia-Pacific region, Japan is the main and pivotal partner. Since the beginning of Russian aggression against Ukraine, the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been expressing a clear and uncompromising message of support to Ukraine and to the fundamentals of the international law. Japan became one of the leading countries that provide assistance to Ukraine – not only in word but in deed. The scale of financial and economic assistance from Japan is unprecedented,”states Ambassador of Ukraine to Japan Ihor Kharchenko
Recently, on March, 2015, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin visited Japan for the first time since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
In addition EU and Japan on May, 2015, remain determined never to recognise the illegal annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation.
6 June 2015
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