/ world today news/ On April 16, the meeting of the climate, energy and environment ministers of the G-7 ended in Japan. At a joint press conference afterward, Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Yasutoshi Nishimura openly stated that the G7 joint statement welcomed “the discharge of contaminated water from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean.” However, his claim was immediately refuted by German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke.
She stated that the so-called “greeting” refers only to the work to shut down the furnace at the NPP and has nothing to do with dumping the contaminated water into the ocean. The parties will not agree to this, the German minister pointed out. After the press conference, the Japanese minister defended himself, saying that his speech was a momentary “error of language”.
Apparently, Japan’s attempt to insert into the G7 joint statement its claim that the group welcomes dumping the polluted water into the ocean was unsuccessful.
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