Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is holding a press conference at the Tokyo Prime Minister’s residence on the 13th of last month. Tokyo = AP Newsis
At the first telephone conference between the US and Japan leaders after the inauguration of US President Joe Biden, he reaffirmed cooperation in strengthening the alliance between the two countries and realizing a’free and open Indo-Pacific’.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga met with reporters after meetings at dawn on the 28th, “congratulating (President Biden’s) inauguration and agreeing to further strengthen the US-Japan alliance. In addition, realizing a free and open Indo-Pacific. It also coincided with working closely together for this,” he said. The phone conference on this day was held for about 30 minutes from 0:45 am.
According to Prime Minister Suga, the two leaders applied to the Senkaku Islands (Chinese name Diaoyudao) of Article 5 of the US-Japan Security Treaty, which stipulated the US’ duty to defend Japan, cooperation between the US, Japan, Australia, and India, and early resolution of the abduction of Japanese by North Korea. , It was decided to cooperate properly, such as cooperation toward denuclearization of North Korea.
Prime Minister Suga said about the second phone conference, which took place immediately after President Biden’s election in November of last year, “I think the dialogue has been conducted properly and practically more than last time. I think that the dialogue through the phone will continue to strengthen the alliance relationship properly. It also matched,” he explained. He said, “It was a very good meeting, thinking that I would like to respond properly toward strengthening the US-Japan alliance while deepening my personal relationship with President Biden.”
It was revealed that there was no exchange of opinions on the Tokyo Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games, which have been raised due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19). In March of last year, then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held a telephone conference and exchanged opinions on the Olympics after US President Donald Trump’s proposal to postpone the Tokyo Olympics for one year. Since then, the Japanese government and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have decided to postpone the Tokyo Olympics for one year.
As for the timing of Prime Minister Suga’s visit to the United States, which was initially aimed at next month, he said he will adjust as soon as possible while watching the corona 19 infection situation. Prior to this, Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu (茂木敏充) visited the United States in February and coordinated a meeting with US Secretary of State Tony Blincoln.
In this regard, Kyodo News Agency also discussed Korea at this meeting, but said that a Japanese government official responded “will refrain from explaining details”.
Meanwhile, President Biden and Prime Minister Suga came to refer to each other as’Yoshi’ and’Jo’, NHK said. The two leaders’ predecessors, former Prime Minister Abe and former President Trump, appear to be conscious of the strengthening of the U.S.-Japan alliance by showing off Bromance (friendship between men) internally and externally by calling each other’Donald’ and’Shinzo’.
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