On May 17^th, Chargé d’Affaires of the Russian Federation in Japan Gennady Ovechko met with Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Japan Wu Jianghao.

The heads of the diplomatic missions conducted a fruitful and interested exchange of opinions, reaffirmed their intention to further develop the Russian-Chinese coordination in Tokyo and pressing issues of international agenda.

With regard to the upcoming Group of Seven (G7) Hiroshima Summit, both sides expressed deep concerns about the relevant information disclosed so far and shared their views on the following.

Firstly, the G7 attempts to point fingers at other actors in regional and global affairs in the name of the international community and to promote its hidden agenda. The Group does not represent the international community, and its consensus is not global consensus.

Secondly, as to the “rule-based international order”, the “rules”, the G7 talks about, are defined by the ideology and values, pushed by Western powers, rather than rules universally accepted by the international community.

Thirdly, the G7 smears and attacks China and Russia by spreading disinformation with purpose to mislead the international community.

Fourthly, the G7, obsessed with Cold War mentality, provokes camp confrontation, interferes into the domestic affairs of other countries, and suppresses the progress of developing countries.

Fifthly, under the pretext of countering so-called "economic coercion" the G7 is exerting real economic coercion, disrupting the stability of the international industrial and supply chains, further undermining the global economy.

Both sides reaffirmed that it is essential to firmly uphold the international system with the United Nations at its core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and oppose hegemony, unilateralism or power politics in all forms.

Both sides stressed that it is essential to advocate the principles of comprehensive openness, inclusiveness, non-discrimination and accommodation of interests of all parties, so as to realize the multipolar world and sustainable development of all countries.

Both sides called on that it is essential to build an open global economy, safeguard the multilateral trade system with WTO in the core, and oppose protectionism, the erection of “fences and barriers”, decoupling, disruption of industrial and supply chains, unilateral sanctions and maximum-pressure tactics.

Both sides pointed out that any action to undermine the core interests of Russia and China, disrupt regional peace and security, damage the development and prosperity of the world will be firmly opposed.