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The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, representing the EU, met Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the 28th EU-Japan summit in Tokyo, Japan.
The leaders of the EU and Japan reaffirmed their close and comprehensive partnership.
The EU and Japan have a deep and dynamic relationship. Japan is our closest strategic partner in the Indo-Pacific region. Russia’s war against Ukraine has shown that deeper cooperation is not a luxury, it's a vital necessity.
Charles Michel, President of the European Council
The EU and Japan discussed important global and regional challenges as well as bilateral relations. They also adopted a joint statement and launched the Digital Partnership.
Russia's war against Ukraine
The leaders of the EU and Japan strongly condemned Russia's aggression and demanded that Russia immediately cease its military aggression on the territory of Ukraine.
This summit takes place as Russia continues to savagely attack the people of Ukraine. We have responded in close coordination, to condemn Russia and to impose punishing sanctions.
Charles Michel, President of the European Council
The EU and Japan will continue to provide coordinated political, financial, material and humanitarian support to Ukraine.
The EU and Japan also discussed how to cooperate in order to keep global energy markets stable and help ensure each other's security of supply, in particular for the supply of LNG. They will cooperate to reduce Europe's dependency on energy supplies from Russia and to ensure diversification of energy supply sources.
Security and defence
The EU and Japan will further enhance their close consultations on security and defence, including on non-proliferation and disarmament and on countering hybrid threats. They will also expand practical cooperation in areas such as cybersecurity, countering disinformation, maritime security and crisis management.
We remain committed to the ultimate goal of realising a world without nuclear weapons, regardless of the current severe international situation.
Joint statement EU-Japan summit 2022
Digital Partnership
EU and Japan leaders launched the EU-Japan Digital Partnership to advance cooperation on a wide range of digital issues and to help ensure a successful digital transformation that delivers solidarity, prosperity and sustainability.
The launch of our digital partnership today is a milestone. In fact, it's our first digital partnership with any country.
Charles Michel, President of the European Council
The Digital Partnership will help EU and Japan achieve their shared goals in key areas such as :
- a secure 5G, "beyond 5G" and 6G technologies
- safe and ethical artificial intelligence applications
- the resilience of global supply chains in the semiconductor industry
- green data infrastructures
- the development of digital skills for workers
A free and open Indo-Pacific region
The EU and Japan will enhance cooperation to ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific region and fully support ASEAN's unity and centrality.
The EU and Japan also strongly condemned the continued unlawful testing of ballistic missiles by North Korea. The leaders called on North Korea to cease destabilising actions and to abandon its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles of all ranges, together with and any other weapons of mass destruction, as well as related programmes.
The leaders of the EU and Japan also remain seriously concerned about the situation in the East China Sea, including in the waters surrounding the Senkaku Islands and in the South China Sea, and strongly oppose any unilateral attempts to change the status quo and increase tensions that could undermine regional stability and the international rules-based order.
Furthermore, the EU and Japan will deepen their exchanges on China, notably with regard to political, economic and security dynamics, including on the situation in Hong Kong as well as on human rights, including in Xinjiang.
China must stand up to defend the multilateral system that it has benefited from in developing its country.
Charles Michel, President of the European Council
Other bilateral issues
Climate change mitigation and adaptation are topics of utmost importance in the EU‑Japan relationship. The EU and Japan will continue to implement the EU-Japan Green Alliance, launched at last year's summit. They reaffirmed the importance of cooperation in areas such as cleaner hydrogen, nuclear safety, renewable energy and carbon recycling.
The leaders of the EU and Japan also welcomed the progress that had been achieved in terms of promoting trusted, secure, sustainable, comprehensive and rules-based connectivity through their Partnership on Sustainable Connectivity and Quality Infrastructure, and will further strengthen cooperation in view of the EU's Global Gateway initiative.
The EU and Japan also launched exploratory talks on Japan's possible association with the Horizon Europe Research & Innovation Framework Programme.
Visit to Hiroshima
In the margins of the EU-Japan summit, President of the European Council, Charles Michel, went to Hiroshima on Friday 13 May to visit the National Peace Memorial Museum, the Peace Memorial Park and meet with Keiko Ogura, atomic bomb survivor.
Tomorrow, I will be in Hiroshima, prime minister Kishida’s home town. We will pay tribute to the victims of the atomic bomb. our actions, in times of conflict, must for ever be guided by the tragic history of Hiroshima. In the light of the war in Ukraine, this will be an important moment to send a powerful message of peace and of hope.
Charles Michel, President of the European Council
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