Japan demands release of national in meeting with Russia's Lavrov
Motegi pressed Lavrov for the detainee’s release as Japan said the case deepens strained ties over Ukraine and a territorial dispute.
- On Friday, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the G20 sidelines in Atlanta and demanded the release of a Japanese national detained in Russia's Sakhalin region.
- Tensions between the two nations have worsened in recent months after Russia labeled Japan "unfriendly" following Tokyo's decision to join Western sanctions against Moscow over the war in Ukraine.
- Russia detained a Japanese journalist in Sakhalin this month on suspicion of espionage, adding friction to the rare high-level meeting held at Japan's request during the G20 summit.
- Motegi issued a demarche regarding various issues, while the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized that dialogue resumption requires Tokyo to give up "unfriendly" policies toward Moscow.
- The two countries have yet to sign a World War Two peace treaty due to a long-running territorial dispute over the Kuril Islands, known in Japan as the Northern Territories.
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Japan, Russia FMs hold first formal meeting in five years
Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu has called for the immediate release of a detained Japanese journalist during talks with his Russian counterpart. The sit-down was the first formal in-person meeting between the two countries' top diplomats in nearly five years.
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TOKYO: Japan's foreign minister urged Moscow to release a detained journalist in his first formal face-to-face meeting with his Russian counterpart in five years, Tokyo said Saturday (Oct 31).
This website is from Cedarnews.net. We are the source of the most comprehensive and influential information available on our site. [Atlanta, Jiji Press] Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, currently visiting Atlanta, Georgia, met briefly with U.S. Secretary of State Rubio on the 30th and expressed his gratitude for the State Department's condemnation of the Russian authorities' detention of a Hokkaido Shimbun journalist. Cedarnews الإخ…
(Tokyo=Yonhap News) Correspondent Lee Do-yeon = The Japanese Foreign Minister held a formal meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister for the first time in over five years and [addressed] the immediate... of the Japanese journalist recently detained by Russian authorities
Japan demands release of national in meeting with Russia's Lavrov
Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of a G20 meeting in Atlanta on Friday and demanded the release of a Japanese national detained in Russia's Sakhalin region.
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