What happened. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that Japan's leadership could become indispensable in developing new security guarantees and tools to deter aggressors.
Source. He said this during a speech via video link in the Japanese Parliament.
Comment. «You were the first in Asia who began to put a lot of pressure on Russia to restore peace, who supported sanctions against Russia. And I encourage you to keep doing it. I urge the countries of Asia, your partners, to unite their efforts in order to stabilize the situation. For Russia to seek peace and stop the tsunami of its brutal invasion of Ukraine», Zelensky stressed.
He noted that the mechanisms of protection against aggressors operating in the world do not work, and noted that now is the time to develop new security guarantees so that it is possible to act preventively and strongly whenever a threat to peace arises:
«We need to create new tools. New guarantees that will work preventively and strongly against aggression, which will really help. Japan's leadership may prove indispensable in their development. For Ukraine, for the world. I offer it to you».
He also called for abandoning economic ties with Russia in order to help Ukraine: «We need to withdraw companies from the Russian market so that this money is not used for the Russian army. We need to help our state even more, our defenders who stop Russian troops. We need to think about the restoration of Ukraine now. About the return of life in the cities destroyed by Russia and in the territories devastated by it», Zelensky also said.