1. We, the G7 International Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, the USA of America, and the Excessive Consultant of the European Union, are steadfast in our solidarity with and our help for Ukraine because it defends itself in opposition to Russia’s unjustifiable, unprovoked and unlawful struggle of aggression, a struggle by which Belarus is complicit. We’re dedicated to serving to Ukraine, a democracy and a UN member, uphold its sovereignty and territorial integrity, to defend itself and resist future assaults or coercion, select its personal future and prosper.
2. Within the presence of the International Ministers of Ukraine and Moldova, we underscore Ukraine’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, independence and proper for self-defence below the UN Constitution. This struggle of aggression has reaffirmed our willpower to reject outright makes an attempt to redraw borders by drive in violation of sovereignty and territorial integrity.
3. We’re offering important humanitarian help to Ukraine and its neighbours to fulfill pressing safety and different lifesaving wants. We proceed to make substantial monetary and financial help accessible to Ukraine to strengthen the resilience of its financial system. We reaffirm our dedication to help Ukraine, together with within the reconstruction of the nation, and name on all companions to affix our efforts to make sure help for Ukraine in assembly its instant humanitarian and monetary wants and for Ukraine to rebuild its future. We’ll pursue our ongoing navy and protection help to Ukraine so long as crucial.
4. We reiterate our demand that Russia put an finish to the struggle it began unprovoked and to finish the tragic struggling and lack of life it continues to trigger. We additionally proceed to name on Belarus to cease enabling Russia’s aggression and to abide by its worldwide obligations. We urge full compliance with worldwide humanitarian regulation, permitting and facilitating fast, protected and unimpeded humanitarian entry in addition to the humanitarian evacuation of civilians safeguarding evacuees’ freedom to decide on their vacation spot. We name on Russia to right away adjust to the legally binding order of the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice of 16 March 2022 and to abide by the related resolutions of the UN Common Meeting and cease its navy aggression – to stop hearth, and instantly and unconditionally withdraw its troops from the whole territory of Ukraine inside its internationally recognised borders.
5. Russia has violated the UN Constitution, undermined the basic ideas of the European safety structure as enshrined within the Helsinki Remaining Act and the Constitution of Paris and must face penalties for its actions. We reject any notion of spheres of affect and any use of drive that’s not in compliance with worldwide regulation. We’ll by no means acknowledge borders Russia has tried to alter by navy aggression, and can uphold our engagement within the help of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, together with Crimea, and all states. We condemn as irresponsible threats of use of chemical, organic or nuclear weapons or associated supplies by Russia and reiterate that any use of such weapons can be met with extreme penalties.
6. Russia’s struggle of aggression in opposition to Ukraine in addition to its unilateral actions restraining Ukrainian agricultural exports, are resulting in steep value rises in commodity markets and the threats we are actually seeing to international meals safety. As international markets endure from Russia’s struggle of selection by rising meals and commodity costs, thus affecting the lives of individuals around the globe and exacerbating present humanitarian and safety wants, we’re decided to contribute extra sources to and help all related efforts that purpose to make sure availability and accessibility of meals, vitality and monetary sources in addition to fundamental commodities for all. We name on Russia to stop instantly its assaults on key transport infrastructure in Ukraine, together with ports, in order that they can be utilized for exporting Ukrainian agricultural merchandise. We’ll tackle the causes and penalties of the worldwide meals disaster via a World Alliance for Meals Safety, that’s to be launched formally on the G7 Growth Ministers assembly, and different efforts in shut cooperation with worldwide companions and organisations past the G7. We’ll intently cooperate with worldwide parters and organisations past the G7, and, with the purpose of reworking political commitments into concrete actions as deliberate by numerous worldwide initiatives such because the Meals and Agricultural Resilience Mission (FARM) and key regional outreach initiatives, together with in direction of African and Mediterranean international locations.
7. We underscore that our sanctions and export controls in opposition to Russia don’t and won’t goal important exports of meals and agricultural inputs to creating international locations and to this finish embrace measures to keep away from any adverse penalties for the manufacturing and distribution of meals. We reaffirm our dedication to guard essentially the most weak international locations and folks affected by Russia’s struggle in opposition to Ukraine and its international repercussions.
8. We condemn and can systematically expose Russia’s coverage of knowledge manipulation and interference, together with disinformation which it employs to justify and help its struggle of aggression in opposition to Ukraine and which intentionally goals at manipulating public opinions domestically and worldwide with a view to protecting its duties within the ongoing struggle. We’ll proceed to work collectively to handle this manipulative habits, specifically inside the G7 Speedy Response Mechanism, and promote the train of freedom of opinion and expression and entry to dependable data from free, pluralistic and unbiased media, notably on the struggle and its penalties for the world.
9. We stand united in opposition to Russia’s violation of the UN Constitution and different basic ideas of worldwide regulation. We condemn within the strongest phrases the continuing assaults killing and wounding civilians and non-combatants, the systematic concentrating on of important infrastructure and the in depth hurt to healthcare personnel and amenities, in addition to conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence in Ukraine. We’ll proceed to help the continuing investigations into violations of worldwide regulation, together with violations of worldwide humanitarian regulation, and human rights violations and potential struggle crimes and crimes in opposition to humanity dedicated in Ukraine. We help investigations by the Prosecutor of the Worldwide Prison Courtroom, the Prosecutor-Common of Ukraine, and different nationwide prosecutors who’re in a position to set up jurisdiction below nationwide regulation. Additional, we totally help the Fee of Inquiry mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine and efforts of civil society organizations to research violations and doc potential struggle crimes. We decide to offering investigative help, technical experience, funding and different help to work in direction of making certain the accountability of those that are accountable for the atrocities and crimes dedicated.
10. Numerous international locations have proven solidarity and offered protected haven for individuals who have fled from Russia’s struggle of aggression. We notably commend Moldova’s outstanding efforts in internet hosting so many refugees, each in relative and absolute phrases. By means of the Moldova Assist Platform launched in Berlin on 5 April and different codecs, we’ll help Moldova to fulfill short-term wants and its longer-term growth and reform programme. We categorical our concern concerning the latest makes an attempt to destabilise the Transnistrian area and emphasize our help to Moldova’s stability, sovereignty and territorial integrity.
11. We reaffirm our willpower to additional enhance financial and political stress on Russia, persevering with to behave in unity. We’ll achieve this, as underlined by G7 Leaders on 8 Might, by imposing coordinated additional restrictive measures on Russia‘s financial system and monetary system; by additional concentrating on Russian elites together with financial actors, the central authorities establishments and the navy, that allow President Putin to guide his struggle of selection; and by isolating Russia from our economies, the worldwide monetary system, and inside international establishments. We’ll broaden our sanctions measures to incorporate sectors on which Russia has a selected dependence.
12. We commend companions which have aligned with us, and encourage others to undertake measures to extend the price of the struggle for Russia by isolating it, and Belarus for its help, from the worldwide financial system, and to forestall sanctions evasion, circumvention and backfilling. We’ll hearken to and work with companions around the globe via elevated outreach to mitigate any impacts to their very own economies brought on by Putin’s struggle, and pledge our help in mitigating the prices.
13. We’ll expedite our efforts to cut back and finish reliance on Russian vitality provides as shortly as attainable, constructing on G7 commitments to part out or ban imports of Russian coal and oil. We’ll speed up the vitality transition and improve vitality effectivity within the context of the accelerated phasing out of our dependency on Russian vitality, in accordance with our local weather goals and vitality safety imperatives, thereby steadily decreasing international forex flows into Russia and proscribing the monetary means accessible to fund Russia’s struggle equipment. We’ll be sure that we achieve this in a well timed and orderly style, and in ways in which present time for the world to safe various provides.
14. We deplore the home repressions in Russia and Belarus in opposition to unbiased media, civil society, the opposition and residents who peacefully categorical their disapproval of Russia’s struggle in opposition to Ukraine. The Russians and Belarusians deserve higher: They need to be capable to make full use of basic human rights, most principally the correct to resolve their very own destiny and the destiny of their international locations. We, the G7, should not at struggle with Russia or the Russian folks. The Russian determination to assault Ukraine was taken by leaders who reject democratic accountability. We lend our help to those that have fallen sufferer to repression. We reaffirm the correct of Russians and Belarusians to hunt, obtain and impart fact-based data from free, pluralistic and unbiased media and condemn the Russian authorities’s and Belarusian regime’s recourse to censorship and different strategies of hampering Russians’ and Belarusians’ entry to unbiased media, together with via restrictions on entry to the web and social media platforms.
15. We condemn actions perpetrated by Russia, which compromise the protection and safety of nuclear materials and amenities in Ukraine and consequently pose critical dangers to human life and the atmosphere. We underline our full help for the efforts of the IAEA and its Director-Common to make sure the nuclear security and safety of, and the applying of safeguards to, nuclear materials and amenities in Ukraine. We name on Russia to right away withdraw its forces from Ukraine’s nuclear amenities and to return full management to professional Ukrainian authorities. We reiterate that the IAEA should be capable to entry all nuclear amenities in Ukraine safely and with none impediments.
