Foreign Minister Motegi, who is visiting the United Kingdom, will meet with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and work closely with him to succeed in the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo this summer and in Paris three years later. It matched.
Foreign Minister Motegi, who is visiting London, England to attend the G7 = Foreign Ministers' Meeting of the Seven Major Countries, met with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian for about 20 minutes on the early morning of the 5th of Japan time.
At the meeting, the two foreign ministers exchanged views on China's growing supremacy and shared serious concerns about unilateral attempts to change the status quo in the East China Sea and South China Sea, the situation in Hong Kong, and human rights issues in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
In addition, Minister Mogi expressed his intention to highly appreciate France's increased involvement in the Indo-Pacific region in recent years, and the two foreign ministers expressed their cooperation toward the realization of a "free and open Indo-Pacific". I confirmed that I would work on the conversion.
The two foreign ministers agreed to work closely with the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics this summer for the success of the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics three years later.