Paris, MINA – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday (September 1) pledged greater security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region when Kishida paid his first visit to France since entering function.
Japan holds the presidency of the industrialized countries of the Group of Seven (G7) in 2024, and Kishida began a tour of the other members of the bloc, France, Italy, Britain, Canada and the United States on Monday. .
“France is the main partner to achieve a free and open Indo-Pacific,” Kishida said in a joint press release with Macron on Monday evening (9/1). DACs report.
Prime Minister Kishida said he looked forward to more cooperation with France in the Asia-Pacific region.
“As unilateral efforts to forcibly change the status quo in the East and South China Seas intensify and the security environment becomes increasingly tense, we want to continue to cooperate with France,” he said. he said, alluding to joint military exercises.
The Japanese government last month approved a major overhaul of defense policy, including a significant increase in spending, and warned China it was the “greatest strategic challenge ever faced” to its security.
Macron said France and Japan would continue their “joint action in the Indo-Pacific”. (T/R6/RS3)
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