THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
February 21, 2023 at 15:33 JST
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the prime minister’s office in Tokyo on Feb. 20 (Koichi Ueda)
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he will invite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to a Group of Seven summit he will host online on Feb. 24, the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Kishida also pledged on Feb. 20 an additional $5.5 billion (739.51 billion yen) to Kiev for reconstruction programs and support for communities hit hard by the war.
“G-7 leaders will reaffirm their strong commitment (to support Ukraine),” Kishida told senior members of his Liberal Democratic Party, “to pave the way for progress in the G-7 summit in Hiroshima (scheduled for May).”
The Japanese government initially planned to have Kishida visit Kiev for bilateral talks with Zelenskyy on the anniversary.
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