2023-05-17 22:55:00
The leaders of the seven main economies of the world will meet from May 19 to 21 in the Japanese city of Hiroshima in a summit that will revolve around the Russian invasion in Ukraine and in which the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, promoter of creating a mediation group to achieve peace, will participate as a guest.
During the working sessions of the G7, issues such as climate change, artificial intelligence, food security, nuclear disarmament and economic resilience, among other.
But the war in Ukraine and its consequences will be one of the central topics, as has been the case in other summits of the great powers, which will be reflected in a final document that shows “unity to support Kiev” according to what the Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, announced.
In an interview with the local channel NHK, the premier said that a “protracted” conflict is expected, for which he called on the G7 to “unite again and show strength and solidarity towards Ukraine,” the Europa Press news agency reported.
“As the international community faces a tipping point, I think there is no better place to have this conversation than Hiroshima,” he added, referring to the city’s It was the scene in August 1945 of the explosion of an atomic bomb dropped by the United States.
The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, plans to intervene remotely in the forum that brings together several of his main allies: United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Canada, the European Union and the host Japan.
Among the invited countries are Brazil and India, which this year chairs the G20, and the rulers of Indonesia, the Cook Islands (in charge of the Pacific Islands Forum), Comoros (in charge of the African Union), Vietnam, South Korea and Australia will also attend.
The leaders of these nations will attend a special session and bilateral meetings that seek to expand the position of the group of seven big economies not only in their opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but also on another big issue, China’s global influence in the world.
“Towards the G7, dialogue on peace, fight against climate change, development and global cooperation,” Lula tweeted today before getting on the plane that will take him to Hiroshima, with two previous stops in Mexico City and Anchorage (in Alaska, United States).
Lula, who since he took office in January seeks to reposition his country internationally after the questioning of the Jair Bolsonaro years, defended on several occasions the need to stop hostilities between Russia and Ukraine and proposed the creation of a group of neutral countries to act as a mediator.
However, most of kyiv’s allied Western powers disagree with that proposalwhich, according to their argument, would put “the aggressor and the victim on the same level”.
Former Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim recently traveled to kyiv to personally present the peace formula to Zelenski, who maintained that the only plan accepted by Ukraine has as a precondition the evacuation of the Ukrainian territoriessomething that is not contemplated in the proposal promoted by Lula.
Brazil and the rest of the guests will not be able to sign the central document of the G7, but they will sign a second text that will focus on the risk that the war implies for global food security and will emphasize the need to allow trade in food produced in Ukraine.
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— Lula (@LulaOficial) May 17, 2023
Beyond the Ukraine another central issue on the extensive agenda will be China, where the G7 will also seek to present a united position on Taiwan, which the Asian giant claims as part of its territory, and also highlight the need to reduce risks in supply chains.
The G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in April, which paved the way for the Hiroshima meeting, He focused heavily on China and criticized Beijing for “militarization activities” in the South China Sea.
Security is tight at every G7 summit, but this year Japan has to show that as a host, can ensure the protection of guest leadersafter its prime minister was attacked in April and former leader Shinzo Abe assassinated in 2022.
According to local media, there are about 24,000 security officers deployed in Hiroshima, most of them come from other parts of the country to this city in the west of the island.
agent groups patrol among tour groups at the well-known Hiroshima Peace Park and security has also been increased on the river that borders sites such as the Atomic Bomb Dome, which recalls the bombing suffered by the city in 1945, the AFP news agency reported.
In the sky, helicopters fly over the town and security measures were also extended to the capital of Japan, Tokyowhere the messages on the trains warn of the reinforcement of the controls by the summit.
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