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Russian ambassador to Japan volition permission his station successful precocious November

TOKYO: The Russian ambassador to Japan, Mikhail Galuzin, is expected to permission his station successful November, without specifying his successor, Japanese media quoted Russian “sources” arsenic saying.
His departure comes amid strained bilateral relations implicit Russia’s penetration of Ukraine that began successful February and Japan’s afloat information successful Western sanctions against Moscow.
Galuzin, 62, assumed the presumption of ambassador successful March 2018. He is known for his expertise successful Japanese affairs, having held diplomatic posts successful Japan 4 times since the days of the Soviet Union.
Galuzin joined the Russian Foreign Ministry successful 1983, and served arsenic Minister and Counselor of the Russian Embassy successful Japan from 2001 to 2008. He besides served arsenic Russia’s ambassador to Indonesia from 2012 to 2017, earlier being appointed to Japan by President Vladimir Putin successful January 2018.
Galuzin entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union successful 1983. From 1983 to 1986 helium served astatine the Embassy of the Soviet Union successful Japan, from 1992 to 1997 the Russian Embassy to Japan, and from 2001 to 2008 Minister of the Embassy of Japan,
Galuzin is firmly committed to Moscow’s presumption connected issues related to its warfare connected Ukraine and the islands controlled by Russia and claimed by Japan, known arsenic the Northern Territories successful Japan and the Southern Kuril Islands successful Russia.
In aboriginal October, helium was summoned to the Japanese Foreign Ministry aft it ordered a Russian diplomat based successful Sapporo to permission successful retaliation for Moscow’s expulsion of a Japanese consul the erstwhile month.
Galuzin said astatine the clip that specified a determination would lone further deteriorate bilateral relations.
Galuzin had said successful an exclusive interrogation with ANJ that Japanese sanctions connected his state would origin harm to Japan. Russia has suspended its talks with Tokyo to motion a bid pact to resoluteness the territorial quality and issued decisions banning dozens of Japanese politicians, lawmakers and media radical from entering Russia.
In an interrogation with Arab News Japan, Galuzin criticized Japan for “incorrectly applying wide sanctions,” but besides said that the practice betwixt the 2 nations has been “very invaluable and mutually beneficial for decades.”
Galuzin besides warned against Japan forming atomic alliances with others and against involving NATO successful East Asia. “We deliberation the argumentation of the US and its allies, including Japan, to impact NATO successful the Asia-Pacific portion issues is precise unsafe because, wherever NATO was involved, determination is nary peace, nary stableness and nary prosperity. Look astatine what happened successful Iraq, Syria, and Libya. Yugoslavia was destroyed and divided.
“Instead of Asian groupings, the US tries to make a radical of US-centered coalitions similar AUKUS, Quad, US-Japan, US-(South) Korea and US-Australia subject alliances. They are closed structures that disagreement the region, not consolidate it. We urge that Asian countries see whether it is bully for the region’s aboriginal to invited NATO here,” helium said.
On existent Japan-Russia relations and aboriginal prospects, the ambassador said Russia sees Japan, the G7 and different European countries’ positions arsenic based connected “double standards” due to the fact that they did not antecedently talk retired against the US’ “past aggression” against countries similar Yugoslavia.
“For instance, the American aggression against Iraq was based connected allegations that Iraq had arms of wide destruction, which turned retired to beryllium a lie. However, they attacked and destroyed Iraq, and hundreds of thousands of guiltless radical were killed, which led to the Middle East becoming a hub for … wide planetary terrorism,” helium said.
“The G7 countries, including the Japanese leadership, misinterpreted the goals and tasks of our (Russian) peculiar subject cognition successful Ukraine and wholly ignored an evident information that a immense and precise existent menace was coming from the Ukrainian authorities argumentation toward Russia,” helium told Arab News Japan.
“After the 2014 bloody coup d’état, which led to an amerciable authorities alteration successful Ukraine, the nine determination has been educated to hatred each things related to Russia, including language, culture, traditions, communal past and relations, destroying millions of ties betwixt people,” helium said.
Moreover, helium claimed that extremist Ukrainian forces, whom helium labeled arsenic Nazis, had seized powerfulness and declared warfare connected everything related to Russia, particularly successful what is known arsenic the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics. These breakaway groups had rejected the coup not lone due to the fact that they considered it illegal, but arsenic a effect of the authorities tried to prohibit the Russian connection successful Ukraine, called to oust each Russians from Crimea, and chopped each ties with Russia, helium added.
“That authorities of Ukrainian Nazis besides received a immense magnitude of lethal arms from NATO to onslaught the population, chiefly of Russian origin, sidesplitting 14,000 radical and injuring hundreds, including children. They caused wide devastation successful that region. It has been ongoing genocide for the past 8 years that cipher has paid attraction to but Russia,” according to Galuzin.
“The Kyiv authorities had rejected the Minsk agreements connected peaceful colony successful the eastbound portion of Ukraine.”
Galuzin said that the Russian authorities believed a imaginable unsafe atomic warfare could beryllium ignited if Kyiv joined NATO, which had respective nations equipped with these weapons.
Galuzin claimed that Russia recovered documents showing the Ukrainian regime, successful practice with the US, preparing for “the accumulation of biologic weaponry, relying connected much than 30 subject biologic facilities located successful Ukraine and controlled by the Pentagon.”