TOKYO, December 8. / TASS /. Japanese authorities will independently decide whether a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is possible. This was announced at a press conference in Tokyo on Wednesday by Secretary General of the Japanese Cabinet Hirokazu Matsuno.
“We will make an independent decision [по возможности бойкота]by looking at all the factors at the right time. As of yet, nothing has been determined, ”Matsuno said, responding to a question from a reporter about Japan’s reaction to Australia’s decision to join the diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics announced by the United States. United States.
Earlier on Wednesday, the relevant Canberra move was announced by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
On December 6, the United States announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, implying an official refusal to attend the Games. Washington later informed its allies and partners overseas, leaving them the right to independently make decisions about attending or not attending events in China on the occasion of the Olympics. Calls for a boycott of the Winter Games, which had previously been launched by politicians from Canada, Norway, the United States, as well as representatives of nearly 200 human rights organizations from different countries, were the massive repressions attributed by the PRC to Xinjiang. Uighur Autonomous Region. China responded by calling the US move political manipulation contrary to the Olympic Charter and vowed to take countermeasures.
The XXIV Olympic Winter Games will be held in Beijing from February 4 to 20, 2022. The capital of the PRC has been chosen as the venue for the International Olympic Committee session in Kuala Lumpur on July 31, 2015.
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