Foreign Minister Mogi visits England Minister's visit to foreign countries for the first time in 6 months August 5 4:08
Foreign Minister Mogi will visit the United Kingdom from the 5th to engage in ministerial talks over an economic partnership agreement. Due to the spread of the new coronavirus, it will be the first time in half a year for cabinet ministers to visit foreign countries, and the government wants to make a full-fledged visit to foreign countries by key personnel.
The government has signed an EPA=Economic Partnership Agreement with the EU=European Union, but following the UK's departure from the EU in January, a bilateral economic partnership agreement was signed with the British Government. We are proceeding with negotiations towards.
To conclude the negotiations, Foreign Minister Mogi will visit London, England from the 5th and will hold ministerial talks with the International Trade Minister of Truss for two days.
In this, it is expected that close discussions will be held on issues such as the timing of tariff elimination on automobiles, which have the highest amount of exports from Japan, and whether to establish import quotas for some British agricultural products.
Due to the spread of the new coronavirus, Japanese ministers will visit foreign countries for the first time in almost half a year since Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Aso visited Saudi Arabia in late February.
Persons who visited the site are required to wait for two weeks after returning to Japan as part of measures to tackle the waterfront, but Minister Mogi and some attendants wait by thoroughly implementing infection prevention measures such as using charter aircraft. The policy is not to take any measures.
The government intends to use this visit to the United Kingdom as a model to make full-scale visits to dignitaries by foreigners.