The crisis in Libya and the natural disaster consequences in Japan became the main subject discussed by the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Group of Eight countries at their meeting in Paris. As for the first point, the meeting participants were not able to develop the general line, but as for the tragedy in Japan, it caused more than joint reaction: the head of the Japanese diplomacy was given the assurances of condolence and the pledges of any aid.
In his speech in reply Takeaki Matsumoto assured his colleagues in the fact that “Japanese government does its best to provide the foreigners living in Japan with complete information”. He called the world community countries to keeping the presence of mind in their effort to eliminate the aftermath of the disaster.
Apart from the wreckage caused by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the raging of the disaster caused the release of radiation and technical failures at two Japanese nuclear power plants. According to the latest data, the radiation level in the areas around the nuclear power plants is 100 times higher than the permissible level, and in some areas of Tokyo it is 15-20 times higher than permissible.