TOKYO: Japan vowed today to try to stop a gaffe-prone former prime minister from visiting Crimea to ask its citizens how they feel about being annexed by Russia.
A clearly exasperated Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said the government was trying to prevent Yukio Hatoyama from making the trip, amid fears he might muddy the diplomatic waters and legitimise Moscow’s contentious move.
“We understand former prime minister Hatoyama has left for Russia. We will continue our efforts” to stop him, Kishida said.
Hatoyama’s plan to travel to the peninsula first surfaced on Friday, as it emerged Japanese officials were urging him to abandon the …read more
Source: theSun
