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 Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida received the leaders participating in the summit of the Group of Seven industrialized countries, which began today, Friday, in the city of "Hiroshima", located in the west of the country, and will continue for three days.
The Japanese broadcaster NHK reported that the G7 leaders visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, where they saw exhibits on the devastation left by nuclear weapons, noting that they also laid wreaths at the memorial to the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing.
The channel added that during the summit, many issues will be discussed, including the global economy and the Ukrainian crisis, in addition to nuclear disarmament, noting that Kishida hopes to show the unity of the Group of Seven in the face of the Russian military operation on Ukraine and the rapid expansion of China's global influence.
The European Commission said in Brussels that President Ursula von der Leyen will be accompanied by Charles Michel, President of the Council of the European Union, today in Hiroshima to attend the G7 summit hosted by Japan, which currently holds the presidency of the group, and starts today and lasts for three days.
A statement issued by the European Ministerial Council in Brussels said that the Hiroshima summit is an opportunity for the G7 leaders to demonstrate their strong determination to uphold the international order based on the rule of law, and to strengthen their reach to the global south.
The main issues that will be addressed during the working sessions are:
Russia's aggression against Ukraine
Dealing with international partners
Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation
Economic flexibility and security
Climate, energy and the environment
Food, health and development
The Japanese presidency also invited the leaders of Australia, Brazil, the Comoros Islands, the Cook Islands, India, Indonesia, the Republic of Korea and Vietnam to participate in several working sessions during the summit.
At the end of the summit, the leaders are expected to adopt a joint statement.
This comes after the meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of Seven, in Niigata, Japan, and they were joined by the heads of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the Financial Stability Board. According to a statement issued in Brussels
Japanese and US government sources confirmed today, Friday, that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will personally attend the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan.
According to the Japanese Kyodo News Agency, this visit will be the first for the Ukrainian president since the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
The Japanese government had announced earlier that Zelensky might participate in the G7 summit via video technology.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said, upon his surprise visit to Kiev on March 21 for talks with Zelensky, that the latter was promised to participate via the Internet in the three-day summit, starting today, Friday.
For his part, Secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov confirmed today that Zelensky will go to Japan to participate in the summit of the Group of Seven industrialized countries held in Hiroshima.
"Very important things will be decided there, so the presence of our president is absolutely necessary in order to defend our interests," Danilov said.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrived in Hiroshima Prefecture to host the Group of Seven summit, eager to present his vision of a nuclear-free world in the western Japanese city destroyed in 1945 by a US atomic bomb during World War II.
During the three-day summit starting Friday, Kishida, who is also the deputy representing Hiroshima, and other leaders from the Group of Seven industrialized nations are likely to stress the importance of making sure nuclear weapons are never used again, especially in light of the current growing geopolitical risks from As a result of the Russian military operations against Ukraine.
"I would like to show our commitment to peace from Hiroshima, I hope this summit will be engraved in history," Kishida told reporters at his office in Tokyo before leaving for Hiroshima (in remarks reported by the official Japanese news agency "Kyodo").
He added that the G7 leaders will demonstrate their determination to uphold a rules-based international order, while affirming their determination to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.
Japan is hosting the summit for the first time since 2016, with the unit group consisting of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, plus the European Union, seen as increasingly important in countering the war in Ukraine and China's militarism in the Indo-Pacific region. , including what is going on around Taiwan.
On the opening day of the gathering, Kishida is set to welcome the G7 leaders to the Peace Memorial Park, which was built to commemorate the victims of the first nuclear attack in history on August 6, 1945, nine days before Japan surrendered in World War II. In which heads of advanced economies of the Group of Seven (G7) visit the park together, including the heads of the three nuclear-armed countries in the group - the United States, Britain and France