Prime Minister Abe departs for Japan-China-Korea summit meeting
Prime Minister Abe wants to visit China from March 23 to attend a summit meeting between Japan, China, and Korea, and to confirm cooperation among the three countries to resolve North Korea issues, including abductions. is. Also, a summit meeting will be held with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the time of the meeting, and it will be watched if the talks lead to improving relations.
Prime Minister Abe will leave Haneda Airport for China on the 23rd to attend a summit meeting between Japan, China and Korea.
And in the afternoon, is scheduled to hold talks with China's Xi Jinping Jintao in Beijing, next year towards the visit to Japan as a state guest in the spring of 習主 seat, is considered to be also exchanged views on China relations a new day.
The 24th Japan-China-South Korea summit meeting will be held in Chengdu, Sichuan Province on the 24th, the first time in about one year and seven months since it was held in Tokyo last May.
At the summit meeting, Prime Minister Abe exchanged opinions on North Korea's growing provocative attitude ahead of the end of the year, which is the deadline for denuclearization negotiations with the United States, and decided to solve problems, including abductions. I would like to confirm the cooperation between the three countries.
At the same time, Prime Minister Abe will have a summit meeting with South Korean President Moon Jane.
We spoke briefly with President Moon last month in Thailand where we visited, but the official summit meeting has been about a year and three months since last September.
As relations between Japan and South Korea deteriorated over the issue of "recruitment," the Korean government decided to maintain the Japan-Korea Military Comprehensive Protection Agreement on Military Information (GSOMIA) last month, and last week, the chief executive officer on export control to South Korea. The policy dialogue was held for the first time in three years.
In addition, the Japanese government has partially reviewed the operation of items called "resist" among raw materials such as semiconductors, limited to transactions between certain Japanese and Korean companies.
At the summit held in such a situation, Prime Minister Abe renewed his request to show a solution on the issue of `` recruitment '' that caused the deterioration of the relationship under the responsibility of the South Korean government. It is noticed whether to head.