Japan doesn’t plan to unilaterally withdraw from the bilateral agreement on cooperation with Russia in the peaceful use of nuclear energy, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday.
“We should bear in mind that our refusal to implement the agreement may send a wrong signal to the international community and Russia,” he told lawmakers when asked whether Japan should terminate the corresponding agreement with Russia amid the developments in Ukraine.
However, he noted that he doesn’t know whether Russia would stay committed to this agreement. He recalled that the guarantor of such agreements is the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The Russian-Japanese framework agreement on cooperation in the sphere of the peaceful use of nuclear energy was signed on May 12, 2009 during Vladimir Putin’s, Russia’s Prime Minister at that time, visit to Japan.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in response to a request for help by the heads of the Donbass republics. He stressed that Moscow had no plans of occupying Ukrainian territories, but aimed to demilitarize and denazify the country.