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Japan has announced it is banning all exports of cutting-edge goods to Russia as additional sanctions over the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
The ban on exports of 14 high-tech goods, including oil refining equipment, quantum computers, 3D printers, and electron microscopes to Russia will take effect starting May 20, according to the Economic and Trade Ministry.
The ministry stated that the move is in tandem with the international community’s efforts to ensure global peace and the Group of Seven (G7) nations’ commitment to ban shipments of cutting-edge items to Russia.
This follows Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi’s remarks on Friday that Russia should be “held accountable over its atrocities” in Ukraine and called Moscow’s actions “totally unacceptable.”
Hayashi met with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba on the sidelines of a G7 foreign ministers meeting in Germany, during which they agreed to cooperate in maintaining sanctions against Russia, Kyodo News reported.
Kuleba expressed his gratitude to Japan for its decision to impose an embargo on Russian oil “to defund Russian war machine.” At our meeting today in Schleswig-Holstein, Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and I focused on ways to put an end to Russian aggression. Grateful for Japan’s strong support of Ukraine and its decision to introduce an embargo on Russian oil to defund Russian war machine. pic.twitter.com/opZ7mTVVDD — Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) May 13, 2022 On May 9, Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced the freezing of the assets of 140 more individuals and the export ban of 70 additional military-related entities to Russia.
“We will continue to cooperate with the respective leaders in the G7 to implement strict sanctions against Russia and provide further support to Ukraine in various aspects in the future,” he said at a press conference in London.
While Kishida had pledged to phase out imports of Russian oil in tandem with […]
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