From this second face-to-face meeting of the G7 foreign ministers, it is expected that a “unified message will emerge that will help calm the situation in the Middle East.”
The G7 foreign ministers will meet this Tuesday and Wednesday in Tokyo to try to send a common message on the conflict between Israel and Palestine and reaffirm the continuity of aid to Ukraine.
The meeting between the foreign ministers of the Group of Seven most industrialized countries in the world (Germany, Canada, United States, France, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom) and the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, is expected to address the most recent developments in the conflict between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas.
The main objective of the current Japanese G7 presidency is for this meeting to result in a “Unified message that helps calm the situation in the Middle East”stated the spokesman for the Japanese executive, Hirokazu Matsuno, at a press conference held on Monday in Tokyo.
Japan is in favor of applying a “humanitarian pause” to allow aid to enter the Gaza Strip and facilitate hostage rescue operations, a position that Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa conveyed to the Israeli Government during a visit to Tel Aviv last weekend.
The Japanese position is similar to that of the United States, whose Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, also defended, in his recent visit to Israel, a humanitarian pause in the Israeli offensives, although he failed to convince the Government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Like the United States, Japan, a country that maintains traditionally friendly relations with both Israel and the Arab countries of the Middle East (it is highly dependent on their oil imports), also did not support calls for a ceasefire in the conflict.
However, Tokyo recently raised the tone of its protests against the growing number of civilian casualties in the Israeli army’s bombing of Gaza, in addition to reaffirming its support for the “two-state solution” to end the conflict.
The G7 meeting in Tokyo is expected to result in a statement joint effort that could help calm the situation and at the same time, adjust The different sensitivities between the countries of the groupsaid diplomatic sources cited by the Spanish news agency Efe.
The war in Ukraine will be another of the main points on the agenda of the G7 foreign ministers, who will appeal to “not forget” the conflictwhich took a back seat due to the escalation of hostilities in the Middle East.
You The G7 countries have already committed to providing aid to Ukraine “for as long as necessary” and “by all possible means”during the leaders’ summit held last May in the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Now they want to revalidate the message in the face of the stagnation of the conflict and the internal debates that are taking place in some countries about the continuity of aid to kyiv.
Additionally, the foreign ministers will discuss the growing instability in the Asia-Pacific region due to China’s military risetoward Tensions around Taiwan and to weapons development in North Korea, Together with fortification yours ties with Moscow and Iran.
The joint statement should reaffirm the importance of maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, as well as respecting international law in the East and South China Seas, where several incidents have occurred between Chinese ships and ships from other Asian countries. .
The Japanese presidency also plans to invite the foreign ministers of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to a session of the meeting, via videoconference, according to the local press, explaining that the intention is to try to contain the growing Beijing’s influence in Asia. Central.
G7 leaders meet in Hiroshima and the war in Ukraine is their biggest concern
In what will be the second face-to-face meeting of the G7 this year under the Japanese presidency, the foreign ministers will hold a working dinner in Tokyo this Tuesday and, on Wednesday, several debate sessions.
Source: Observadora
