The leaders of Japan and Italy have agreed to accelerate security cooperation, including a deal to expand supply chains for critical minerals, emphasizing that the security of the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific “is strongly interrelated.”
During their first face-to-face summit Friday in Tokyo, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, also agreed to boost cooperation over the development of a next-generation fighter jet involving the two nations and Britain and exchanged views on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and on China.
They agreed to continue to work together for a free and open Indo-Pacific and to realize a just and lasting peace in Ukraine.