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On November 23, commencing at 11:50 local time (November 23, 18:50 JST) for approximately 20 minutes, Ms. TAKAICHI Sanae, Prime Minister of Japan, who was visiting Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa, to attend the G20 Summit, held a meeting with H.E. Mr. Friedrich Merz, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. The overview of the meeting is as follows.<\/p>\n
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1. At the beginning, Prime Minister Takaichi stressed the increasing importance of cooperation with Germany, which plays a leading role in Europe as a member of the G7. She also stated that the security of the Euro-Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific is inseparable, and that she hopes to work with Chancellor Merz to achieve a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific.”<\/p>\n
2. Chancellor Merz offered his congratulations to Prime Minister Takaichi on her inauguration and stated that he would strengthen cooperation with Japan, as an important partner in Asia, in various fields.<\/p>\n
3. The two leaders concurred on strengthening cooperation in national and economic security between Japan and Germany.<\/p>\n
4. They also exchanged views on international situation, including the Indo-Pacific, and concurred that Japan and Germany will work closely together to address the challenges facing the international community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Provisional translation] \u00a0 On November 23, commencing at 11:50 local time (November 23, 18:50 JST) for approximately 20…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[7812,4671,2000,299,1824,2122,12184],"class_list":{"0":"post-589047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-cabinet","9":"tag-diplomatic-relations","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-japan","14":"tag-prime-minister"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115599885139043341","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}