The Chancellor met the Japanese Prime Minister. Talks are also planned with Brazilian President Lula da Silva and Australian Prime Minister Albanese.
Immediately before the start of the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) met with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for talks.
The two met in the morning at the Grand Prince summit hotel on the island of Ujina on the outskirts of the city. To kick off the three-day summit, the heads of state and government of the leading democracies will then visit the Peace Park in the city center to commemorate the hundreds of thousands of victims of the first atomic bombing.
On the morning of August 6, 1945, the bomb destroyed 80 percent of Hiroshima. It is estimated that more than 70,000 people were killed in one fell swoop, with tens of thousands more dying weeks, months and years later. Hiroshima is a “memorial that we have a responsibility for peace and security in the world,” Scholz said on Thursday after his arrival.
On the fringes of the summit, the Chancellor will hold further bilateral talks. On Saturday he will meet Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. The two are among the nine guests invited to the summit.
Source: Stern
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