TOKYO, May 24 (Xinhua) — “War is not a solution to conflicts,” stated former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad right here at a press convention on Wednesday.
The world now faces related frequent issues which can’t be handled by particular person nations as “we are basically one world,” the 97-year-old former prime minister stated throughout his speech on the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo.
Regarding the Ukraine disaster, Mahathir requires negotiations “round a table, not on the battlefield of war,” including that the U.S.-led navy support to Ukraine and unbridled assaults on Russia “could lead to a world war.”
Mahathir instructed the press that the rationale why some invited state leaders to the just-concluded Group of Seven (G7) summit didn’t present assist for Ukraine just like the G7 leaders was that “they don’t like war.”
“I don’t think going to war, confrontation, or sending your speaker to provoke other countries is a good way of ending a problem that affects the whole world. So my view is that we must reject war,” he stated.
At the G7 summit which concluded Sunday in Japan’s western metropolis of Hiroshima, the G7 members vowed to accentuate assist for Ukraine and introduced particular measures to sanction Russia in a standalone assertion on Ukraine.
Mahathir identified that the choice made to use sanctions to Russia has already affected the economic system of Malaysia and plenty of different nations that “have no wish to fight against anyone.”
“Yes, you can apply sanctions, but sanctions hurt other countries as well,” stated the previous prime minister.