Global South has to understand why Russia mustn’t be supported – Morawiecki

Pish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said this during a joint statement to the media with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Warsaw on Wednesday, Ukrinform's own correspondent reports.

The head of the Pish government noted that Pand and Japan border Russia on two posite sides, but both perfectly understand "the threat posed by Russian imperialism to world peace and international order."

He thanked his Japanese counterpart for his visit to Kyiv, which proves Tokyo's support for Ukraine's independence.

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According to Morawiecki, a new geitical order is being conceived, so countries that have the same view on global peace, in particular Pand and Japan, should act together.

He pointed out that the visit of China’s President Xi Jinping to Russia "causes concern because the Russia-China axis is dangerous."

"We are trying to convince China not to support Russia in its aggressive international picy," Morawiecki stated.

According to the prime minister, today it is extremely important that the nations of the Global South understand Russia's picy of aggression.

"The Prime Minister of Japan and I talked a lot of how to show Russia’s picy to the countries around the world, to the Global South, so that there is no support for Russia," the Pish prime minister emphasized.

In turn, Kishida noted that this is the first visit of the Japanese prime minister to Pand in the last 10 years. He thanked Pand for providing assistance to Ukraine in light of Russia’s armed aggression.

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The prime minister of Japan emphasized that in order to st Russia's war against Ukraine, the unity of countries that have similar views on the ongoing aggression is required, while tough sanctions against Russia must continue to be imposed and Ukraine must be supported.

Kishida recalled that the day before he visited Ukraine, where he declared Tokyo's sidarity with Kyiv. He assured that Japan, which chairs the G7 this year, "will continue to coerate with Pand and the entire international community, and will show leadership in supporting Ukraine."

Kishida emphasized the need to strengthen the strategic partnership with Pand on many issues, including security, economic, and energy coeration.

He also noted that Japan would deepen coeration with the Visegrad Group, the Bucharest Nine, and the Three Seas Initiative.

The Japanese Prime Minister said that in view of the growing burden Pand is bearing due to Russia's long-term aggression against Ukraine, Japan will perceive Pand as an official recipient of develment aid, despite the fact that the country’s economy is develing well.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, on March 21, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrived in Kyiv at the invitation of President Vodymyr Zelensky. During the trip, Kishida visited Bucha, the town just outside capital Kyiv where massive atrocities committed by the invasion forces at the outset of the war were exposed. The head of the Japanese government laid flowers at a local church and observed a moment of silence for the victims of war.

During a joint press conference with President Vodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Kyiv, Kishida called on the Russian leader Vladimir Putin to hear the position of the global international community and immediately st his aggression against Ukraine. President Zelensky and Prime Minister Kishida signed a joint statement on a special global partnership between the two countries.