Foreign Minister Motegi met with Foreign Minister Remetz in Estonia, one of the three Baltic states, to share serious concerns about China's supremacy, and to maintain and strengthen a free and open international order. We agreed to cooperate with each other.
Foreign Minister Motegi visited the three Baltic states after attending the G20 = foreign ministers' meeting of 20 major countries, and met with Foreign Minister Remetz for about 45 minutes in Estonia, the first country visited on the evening of the 1st of Japan time. did.
In this, Minister Mogi expressed his intention to welcome the EU-European Union's policy of coordinating a new Indo-Pacific strategy based on the "Free and Open Indo-Pacific" concept advocated by Japan. ..
The two foreign ministers were also free to exchange views on the situation in China and share serious concerns about China's supremacy actions such as attempts to unilaterally change the status quo by force in the East China Sea and the problems of Hong Kong and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. We agreed to work together to maintain and strengthen an open international order.