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A Japanese Initiative for Peace in the Russia-Ukraine War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

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24 February is a date destined to be long remembered, the day on which Russia launched war on its neighbor Ukraine in the name of a “Special Military Operation.” Just over a week later the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted by overwhelming majority a special, emergency resolution (ES-11/1) deploring the Russian act as aggression and demanding it desist and withdraw. The invasion and the response by Ukrainian forces under President Zelenskyy, backed by US and NATO support in the form of advanced weaponry, economic, financial and diplomatic backing, has brought the world itself to the brink of World War Three.

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1 For an earlier Statement (in French, Russian, Spanish as well as English and Japanese) by the newly-formed “Association of Concerned Japanese Historians,” see “What should Japan do to stop the war in Ukraine as quickly as possible?” 15 March 2022.