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Japanese PM Kishida Joins India’s Stance to restructure UN

After Indian PM Nagendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida also called on the world to reaffirm the importance of a rules-based international order amid inadequate response in the ongoing war in Ukraine, criticizing Russia for threatening to use nuclear weapons in the conflict.

Kishida also said in a speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday that concrete reforms to the world body would be essential to restore the credibility of the Security Council, which was further threatened after veto-wielding permanent member Russia earlier attacked its neighboring country. this year.

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has shaken the “foundation of international order” laid out in the UN Charter, said Kishida, the first Japanese leader to address the assembly’s annual general debate in person since 2019.

Now is the time to return to the ideas and principles of the charter and “gather our strength and wisdom to ensure a rules-based international order,” Kishida said.

The weekly meeting from Tuesday comes as the world sees no sign of an imminent end to the war in Ukraine. Kyiv has recently taken back many areas of the country under Russian control with the help of military support from the United States and some other Western countries, while Moscow continues its offensive.

Kishida – who represents a constituency in Hiroshima, one of the country’s two cities to be atomically bombed at the end of World War II – said Moscow’s nuclear blackmail was a “serious threat to the peace and security of the international community” and called it “absolutely”. unacceptable.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has made remarks that suggest Moscow is not ruling out using a nuclear weapon in an ongoing war if necessary, prompting criticism from many other world leaders.

The United Nations failed to stop the war in Ukraine. Instead, its operations have shown widening divisions among members, with the US and other Western countries imposing economic sanctions on Moscow and others not fully or immediately joining them.

Kishida urged other leaders to use the Future of the United Nations Summit planned for 2024 to begin full-fledged talks on reforming the world organization.

Japan has long expressed a desire to become a permanent member of a reformed Security Council. The nation secured a non-permanent seat on the 15-member council in June for a record twelfth time, with her two-year term set to begin in January.

Earlier on Tuesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the world was “in danger” as “colossal global dysfunction” challenged efforts to tackle the food crisis and climate change.

In August, Kishida became the first Japanese prime minister to attend a review conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and called on nuclear-armed states to increase transparency about their arsenals.

During his speech on Tuesday, Kishida also said any “attempts to change the status quo” in the territories through force and coercion would never be forgiven, using a phrase often used by Tokyo in an apparent criticism of Beijing’s growing naval assertiveness in the east and south. China Seas.

Kishida mentioned efforts to realize a “free and open Indo-Pacific”, a vision advocated by Tokyo and Washington, as well as other Asian and Pacific nations, to counter Beijing’s military influence in the region.

China held large-scale live-fire military exercises off Taiwan last month, days after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the self-ruled democratic island. Beijing considers Taiwan a breakaway province to be reunited with the mainland, by force if necessary.

Regarding North Korea’s missile and nuclear development, as well as the abductions of Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s, Kishida reiterated his willingness to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “without preconditions” to comprehensively resolve the issues .

During his four-day stay in New York until Friday, Kishida plans to meet with leaders of other countries on the sidelines of the UN event and join several multilateral meetings. He will also make a speech at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday.

Kishida postponed his departure from Japan, originally scheduled for Monday, to monitor the damage caused by the powerful typhoon in the country.

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