Thursday, March 17, 2011

Several passes of Japan prepare the evacuation of its nationals

International warnings by the nuclear crisis that threatens Japan shoot by the hour and are causing an exodus of foreigners from the country. Governments and embassies in Tokyo from several European countries have recommended that their citizens to leave the Japanese capital and the country's northwest to the emergency center of Fukushima, after the earthquake and tsunami of last Friday.

Many embassies have started today to organize operations to assist those wishing to leave Japan. Some governments such as USA, UK, France, Colombia, Mexico and Spain have announced the shipment of aircraft to Tokyo to repatriate their nationals who want to voluntarily leave the capital, though without formal talk of an evacuation.

The United States has approved the first evacuation of its personnel in Japan, affecting about 600 people, as reported by the Department of State. Barack Obama Administration more drastic decisions as the days pass and the nuclear crisis deepens with no apparent solution in sight. First came the warning to its citizens to stay away at least 80 kilometers from the Fukushima nuclear plant while the Japanese authorities put that limit in 20.

Now is sending planes to anyone who wishes to leave the country due to high levels of radioactivity that exists in some areas. The Pentagon has also given the green light to the families of his troops and personnel stationed in Japan to go if they wish and has announced it will move to the area a team of nine specialists in this type of crisis to advise the Japanese army.

Alarm is growing. The State Department has issued a warning to its citizens to avoid travel to Japan and, for those who live there and can not leave the country, have been advised to travel as little as possible, be alert to weather changes on all wind direction, before leaving home. U.S.

citizens living in the south are less likely, but again, the wind will be critical in the evolving situation, reported Patrick Kennedy, a senior official of the Department. The U.S. secretary of state, traveling through North Africa, has said that U.S. is reviewing the situation in Japan "minute by minute." "We are doing everything in our power to help the Japanese and their heroic efforts to deal with this disaster," said Clinton.

President Barack Obama met this afternoon with Prime Minister of Ireland, Enda Kenny, on the occasion of the feast of St. Patrick. Obama has not answered questions before the meeting but has indicated it will comment on Japan in a few hours. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trinidad Jimenez, stressed that the country will be taken to any Spanish you want to go out and have difficulty doing so.

For this, the Government has prepared aircraft awaiting the order to take flight to Tokyo. Britain has said it will charter flights from Tokyo to Hong Kong for about 700 euros for British citizens. In addition, those who have been directly affected by the tsunami can travel free. The French ambassador in Tokyo, Philippe Faure, has been estimated at five hundred the number of Frenchmen who will come along today, more than 700 other morning, on two special flights of Air France.

"Given the possible evolution of the situation, it is recommended to the French in Tokyo to leave the region south of the country or to France," the ministry reported on its website. India also has a Boeing 423 passenger capacity available to his countrymen who want to return. The German Foreign Ministry has urged its citizens residing in metropolitan Tokyo to abandon Japan's capital against the risk of nuclear catastrophe.

"Foreign recommends that all Germans in the region of Fukushima and the Tokyo-Yokohama area who go to Osaka or through this city, the stranger," said an official statement on the website of the Ministry Japan Government , however, says no plans to expand the evacuation area beyond the prescribed 20 mile radius of the plant in Fukushima.

The minister spokesman Yukio Edan, said that Japan "understands" the EEU U recommendation that its citizens in a radius of 80 kilometers from the center leaving the area, but so far stressed that the Government considers it necessary to extend the perimeter. About 200,000 people were evacuated from the days in a perimeter of 20 km around the plant in Fukushima, lie to those between 20 and 30 km have been advised not to leave their homes, close windows and turn the air conditioning no .

Similarly, the Australian Government has called on its nationals to consider leaving Tokyo. "If your presence is not necessary, if you are in Tokyo and eight prefectures concerned, then they should be thinking of leaving the place (...) is something we have to consider whether their presence in Japan is not absolutely essential," said Foreign Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, ABC radio.

Trinidad Jimenez has assured that there is no Spanish located within a radius of sixty miles from Fukushima, in the scope of risk.

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