Tokyo provides 57 Russian new organisations to its commerce blacklist in newest measures to punish Moscow.
Japan has expanded its sanctions focusing on Russia over its battle in Ukraine, banning Russian diamonds for non-industrial use and including dozens of corporations and organisations to its commerce blacklist.
The expanded export blacklist introduced on Friday contains 57 organisations in Russia and 6 organisations within the United Arab Emirates, Syria, Uzbekistan and Armenia.
The most recent measures carry the entire variety of Russian organisations underneath sanctions to 494.
Twenty-seven entities from Belarus, one among Russia’s closest allies, have additionally been sanctioned.
The expanded sanctions come after the Group of Seven (G7) nations earlier this month held a digital summit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to indicate solidarity with Kyiv.
Below Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Japan has taken a more durable stand in opposition to Moscow than another nation within the area, the place governments have been hesitant to take sides within the battle.
In the course of the G7 summit in Hiroshima in Could, Kishida pledged “unwavering solidarity” with Ukraine whereas condemning makes an attempt wherever to make use of power to alter the established order.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a high-profile go to to Hiroshima throughout that summit to induce the worldwide group to do every part it might to make sure Russia is the “last aggressor”.
Tokyo, a key US ally and the one Asian member of the G7, has forged Moscow’s invasion as a risk to peace in all places and linked the destiny of Ukraine to the safety of close by Taiwan, which China has threatened to “reunify” with the Chinese language mainland if needed.
Moscow final yr blacklisted greater than 380 Japanese parliamentarians in retaliation for Tokyo’s stance on the battle, accusing the lawmakers of “adopting an unfriendly, anti-Russian position notably by expressing unfounded accusations against our country concerning the special military operation in Ukraine”.
