Prime Minister Suga, who is visiting the United States, met with Australian Prime Minister Morrison and expressed his intention to welcome Australia's creation of a new security framework with the United States and the United Kingdom, and cooperated with allies and comrades. We agreed on a policy of strengthening.
Prime Minister Suga, who is visiting Washington, the capital of the United States, meets with Australian Prime Minister Morrison from 9:30 pm on the 24th of Japan time before a summit meeting by four countries called Quad, Japan, the United States, Australia, and India. Did.
In this, Prime Minister Suga expressed his intention to welcome Australia to create a security framework called "AUKUS" together with the United States and the United Kingdom, and the two leaders will respond to strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific region. Therefore, we agreed to strengthen cooperation with allies and fellow countries, including the quad.
The two leaders also agreed to oppose unilateral attempts to change the status quo in the East China Sea and South China Sea, with China in mind, in the areas of economy and security toward the realization of a free and open Indo-Pacific. We confirmed the policy of working closely.