Prime Minister Suga announced support policy for strengthening infectious disease response at the ASEAN Summit on November 12, 18:52
Prime Minister Suga attended an online summit meeting with 10 ASEAN member countries, and Japan funded the establishment of the "Infectious Disease Control Center" as a countermeasure against the new coronavirus, and has the ability to respond to infectious diseases in the region. He announced his policy to support the strengthening.
Prime Minister Suga attended the online summit meeting with 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations from 5 pm on the 12th, and attended the multilateral international conference for the first time.
At the beginning, Prime Minister Suga said that as a countermeasure against the new coronavirus, the "Infectious Disease Control Center" established by Japan with the aim of strengthening the infectious disease response capacity in the ASEAN region was "Regional Infectious Disease Control". At the core, Japan will spare no effort to develop into an organization that protects the people of ASEAN from the threat of infectious diseases. "
He also stated that he strongly supports the original concept "ASEAN Outlook" launched by ASEAN last year, "it has many essential similarities with the free and open Indo-Pacific promoted by Japan." He showed a policy of promoting cooperation toward the realization of the concept.
In addition, he explained Japan's policy of aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero as a whole by 2050. I would like to cooperate to make it happen. "