TOKYO (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 09th March, 2023) A 46-kilometer (28-mile) no-fly zone will be introduced for five days around the site of the next G7 Summit in the Japanese city of Hiroshima in May, Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism said on Thursday.
"Against the backdrop of the complex situation with international terrorism and to prevent a situation of a possible terrorist attack with the use of an aircraft, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism introduces the following flight restrictions in accordance with article 80 of the Civil Aeronautics Act," the ministry said in a statement on the website.
The no-fly zone will be introduced within 46 kilometers of Grand Prince Hotel Hiroshima � the site of the G7 Summit � for five days starting May 18, the statement read.
The measure will not affect scheduled flights to the airports of Hiroshima, Iwakuni, Iwami, and Matsuyama, the ministry said, adding that accredited media helicopters will also be allowed to fly with the necessary clearance, but pilots and cameramen will not be allowed to open helicopters' doors or leave their seats.
This year, the G7 presidency is assumed by Japan. Its key summit will be the first one hosted by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The summit will take place over three days from May 19 in the city of Hiroshima, the prime minister's constituency, which was devastated by a US atomic bomb in August 1945, with Kishida planning to draw attention to the security issues surrounding nuclear weapons. A meeting of the G7 foreign ministers is scheduled to take place in Karuizawa � a popular resort in the Japanese prefecture of Nagano � from April 16-18.
