During the three-day consultations, the G7 countries showed unity in supporting Ukraine in the fight against Russia. The personal presence of the Ukrainian President also helped.
At their summit in Hiroshima, the G7 countries demonstrated “unshakeable unity” in supporting Ukraine in its defensive struggle against Russia, according to host Japan. The personal presence of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the meeting of heads of state and government helped send “a strong message” to the world, said Prime Minister Fumio Kishida after the end of the three-day deliberations. “I think that was of very great importance,” said Kishida. The G7 will not accept unilateral attempts to change the status quo “no matter where in the world” by force.
Threats to use nuclear weapons “should not be accepted,” said Kishida. The G7 countries pursued the “ideal” of ridding the world of nuclear weapons. “A dream is something different than an ideal. Ideals are achievable,” said the Japanese head of government. “We are all citizens of Hiroshima” who yearn for peace, said Kishida, who is from Hiroshima. The city was destroyed on August 6, 1945 by the first atomic bomb dropped in a war. “When all eight billion people in the world become citizens of Hiroshima, there will be no more nuclear weapons on this planet. I firmly believe that,” Kishida said.
Macron to Zelenskyj trip
France hopes that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s trip to the G7 summit will give countries like India and Brazil more understanding of Ukraine’s position. Asked about the fact that a French government plane took Selenskyj to the Arab League and then on to the G7 meeting in Hiroshima, President Emmanuel Macron said it was also about creating peace and finding solutions.
It is in the interests of France and its role as a permanent member of the UN Security Council to allow Zelenskyy “to express himself before several world powers, which are sometimes only exposed to a single discourse,” Macron told journalists on the sidelines of the summit.
He referred to an upcoming meeting of the so-called BRICS countries Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. “This is very important for us because it prevents a division in the world – between those who clearly support Ukraine and those who say they support peace, sometimes without knowing exactly what that means.”
Source: Stern
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