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▼ Japan, Canada set ‘Two-Plus-Two’ Meet in Tokyo in Bid to Strengthen Security Ties
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HIROSHIMA – Japan and Canada on Saturday agreed to hold a so-called two-plus-two meeting between the countries’ vice foreign and defense ministers on April 19 in Tokyo to strengthen bilateral security ties, the Foreign Ministry said.
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and his Canadian counterpart, Stephane Dion, also agreed to strengthen economic ties, with Kishida requesting an early start of Canadian exports of natural gas to Japan. Dion said Canada will do all it can, the ministry said.
The ministers met in Hiroshima ahead of a two-day Group of Seven foreign ministers’ meeting which started in the city Sunday.
At the meeting the G-7 ministers are expected to discuss nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation as well as counterterrorism measures among other global and regional issues.
Kishida told Dion a declaration on disarmament and nonproliferation to be released after the talks end will present a realistic and pragmatic approach to a world free of nuclear weapons through cooperation between nuclear and nonnuclear powers, the ministry said.
The foreign ministers of Britain, Canada, Italy, France, Germany, Japan and the United States were slated to attend to meeting.
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and his Canadian counterpart, Stephane Dion, also agreed to strengthen economic ties, with Kishida requesting an early start of Canadian exports of natural gas to Japan. Dion said Canada will do all it can, the ministry said.
The ministers met in Hiroshima ahead of a two-day Group of Seven foreign ministers’ meeting which started in the city Sunday.
At the meeting the G-7 ministers are expected to discuss nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation as well as counterterrorism measures among other global and regional issues.
Kishida told Dion a declaration on disarmament and nonproliferation to be released after the talks end will present a realistic and pragmatic approach to a world free of nuclear weapons through cooperation between nuclear and nonnuclear powers, the ministry said.
The foreign ministers of Britain, Canada, Italy, France, Germany, Japan and the United States were slated to attend to meeting.
- April 12, 2016
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