Prime Minister Kishida, who visited three nations together with Lithuania for the summit assembly of NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organization, primarily based on the outcomes of the go to, urged European nations to additional have interaction within the Indo-Pacific, resulting in regional deterrence. This is the concept that I wish to proceed.
Prime Minister Kishida visited three European nations, Poland, Lithuania, and Belgium, for 4 days from the eleventh of this month, and is on his means again to Japan.
Of these, in Lithuania, he attended the NATO summit assembly, the place he emphasised his willingness to contribute to the state of affairs in Ukraine and referred to as for cooperation to keep up and strengthen a free and open worldwide order primarily based on the rule of legislation.
In conjunction with the convention, a brand new cooperation doc was introduced for Japan and NATO to collectively reply to safety challenges, taking into account the traits of Russia and China.
In Belgium, the European Union (EU) is attending an everyday summit assembly, and the EU facet introduced that it might abolish the import restrictions on Japanese meals merchandise which have continued because the accident on the Tokyo Electric Power Company Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, in addition to safety points. We have compiled a brand new joint assertion to strengthen cooperation in a variety of fields.
Based on the outcomes of this go to, Prime Minister Kishida wish to urge European nations to additional have interaction within the Indo-Pacific, which is able to result in deterrence within the area.