The Russian Foreign Ministry has delivered “a strong protest” to the Japanese government over the latter’s role in “providing an official platform to hold a Tokyo-based meeting of the so-called ‘Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum,’ whose activities are deemed undesirable in Russia, and whose members were entered on the register of terrorists,” Russian news agency TASS reported Aug. 7.
The “Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum,” whose stated intent is to break the Russian Federation into some 20 to 41 separate nations subservient to NATO and Western financial interests, not only held their Eighth Forum in Tokyo Aug. 1-2, but at least part of the first day’s sessions was held inside the Japanese Parliament itself, where these separatists and terrorists were received by members of both major political parties. The “Tokyo Declaration” issued from the Forum welcoming the envisioned breakup of Russia, was signed by three Japanese Diet members, one of them from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (their names are not yet known to EIR). Signers are “committed to the de-imperialization of the Russian Federation and liberation of all nations within the territory of Russia,” the Declaration proclaims. It also commits to establishing a “Free Eurasia Coordination Center” to support “the enslaved nations of the Russian Federation” in Japan. Various speakers at the Eighth Forum also promised the FNPRF would mobilize support for Japan’s efforts to recover the disputed Northern Territories, which are in Russian hands.
Asahi Shimbun, one of the oldest and largest newspapers of record in Japan, headlined its coverage of the Forum: “Countdown to Collapse Begins; Russian Dissidents Rally in Japan.” A Japanese professor who helped organize the event boasted on national television network, NHK, that “never before have so many groups aiming to de-imperialize Russia come together in Japan.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry’s response was harsh. It charged that the separatist confab would not have been accepted in Japan without “the consent” of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government, and that the government has demonstrated open support for “terrorist rhetoric and an ideology of hatred against Russia. In such a context, we are not surprised by Tokyo’s attempt to link the anti-Russian hostile action that took place with its own illegitimate revanchist claims to the southern Kuril Islands.”
The holding of the Forum, “as well as Japanese parliamentarians joining the aforementioned gathering, who signed the final ‘document’ calling for the undermining of Russian statehood and violation of its territorial integrity, cannot be regarded as anything other than as an attempt to interfere in Russia’s internal affairs,” it stated.
“In case provocative acts are repeated despite our warnings, Tokyo should be prepared for response measures that would hit Japan’s interests where it hurts in its ties with Russia. Such practices, which may finally destroy what remains of normal relations dismantled by the Japanese government, should be stopped immediately, and Japanese apologists of terrorist ideas should be justly punished.” (https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1899934/)
