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Thu, 03/17/2011 - 12:48
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Russian embassy lists citizens who want to leave Japan
TOKYO, March 17 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian embassy in Tokyo continues making lists of Russian citizens who want to leave Japan because of a threat of radiation and possible new calamities, Chief of the Consular department of the Russian embassy Sergei Kastornov told Itar-Tass. The work on the lists of such citizens is going on, Kastorov said.
Earlier, the Russian embassy told Itar-Tass that families of the
embassy workers would fly to Moscow on Friday by Aeroflot planes. It is the matter of a departure on commerce conditions, rather than evacuation, the embassy explained. The Russian diplomatic mission merely helps alarmed people to get seats on flights to Russia, the embassy specified.
The other Russian organizations situated away from Tokyo, such as the Russian Consulate in Osaka, do not consider a possibility of evacuating their personnel yet because there is no threat either of new tremors or radiation. "We see no grounds for general evacuation of the embassy staff or issuing such recommendations to Russian citizens in Tokyo," said Russian diplomat Sergei Boutin. The radiation level in Tokyo remains normal; the embassy ensures permanent monitoring of the situation. If any signs of a critical scenario are spotted the embassy will take corresponding measures, the diplomat said.
There are very many people who want to leave Japan, he said. The
alarmed people have been calling from everywhere, even from the remote
city of Miyazaki on Kyushu. Some of them want to leave Japan in the status of evacuated citizens. For that purpose the embassy does its best to ensure a maximum passenger load on board planes of the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations which deliver humanitarian cargoes to Japan.
These planes might airlift passengers to Russia who for some reasons
cannot fly to Russia by Aeroflot flights, the diplomat said.
" But, the planes of the Ministry for Emergency Situations fly as far as Khabarovsk only, and they are no comfortable passenger Boeings. Anyway, this air route might be convenient for the Russians who live in the Far East," the diplomat said.
The British Foreign Office on Wednesday issued recommendations to
British citizens to leave territories in the northeast of Japan and its capital, Tokyo. Nonetheless, the Foreign Office underlined that there was no threat to human health in Tokyo. It said its recommendations were given because there might be problems with commodities supply, communications and the related infrastructure.
The U.S. embassy and the embassies of other leading countries have not given such recommendations to their citizens either. The U.S. citizens have been asked to leave a zone within a range of 90 kilometers from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Earlier, the Russian embassy told Itar-Tass that families of the
embassy workers would fly to Moscow on Friday by Aeroflot planes. It is the matter of a departure on commerce conditions, rather than evacuation, the embassy explained. The Russian diplomatic mission merely helps alarmed people to get seats on flights to Russia, the embassy specified.
The other Russian organizations situated away from Tokyo, such as the Russian Consulate in Osaka, do not consider a possibility of evacuating their personnel yet because there is no threat either of new tremors or radiation. "We see no grounds for general evacuation of the embassy staff or issuing such recommendations to Russian citizens in Tokyo," said Russian diplomat Sergei Boutin. The radiation level in Tokyo remains normal; the embassy ensures permanent monitoring of the situation. If any signs of a critical scenario are spotted the embassy will take corresponding measures, the diplomat said.
There are very many people who want to leave Japan, he said. The
alarmed people have been calling from everywhere, even from the remote
city of Miyazaki on Kyushu. Some of them want to leave Japan in the status of evacuated citizens. For that purpose the embassy does its best to ensure a maximum passenger load on board planes of the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations which deliver humanitarian cargoes to Japan.
These planes might airlift passengers to Russia who for some reasons
cannot fly to Russia by Aeroflot flights, the diplomat said.
" But, the planes of the Ministry for Emergency Situations fly as far as Khabarovsk only, and they are no comfortable passenger Boeings. Anyway, this air route might be convenient for the Russians who live in the Far East," the diplomat said.
The British Foreign Office on Wednesday issued recommendations to
British citizens to leave territories in the northeast of Japan and its capital, Tokyo. Nonetheless, the Foreign Office underlined that there was no threat to human health in Tokyo. It said its recommendations were given because there might be problems with commodities supply, communications and the related infrastructure.
The U.S. embassy and the embassies of other leading countries have not given such recommendations to their citizens either. The U.S. citizens have been asked to leave a zone within a range of 90 kilometers from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
