Meloni: 'Italy is increasingly present in the Indo-Pacific' - News.it. With Japan there has been a "relaunch of collaboration in political and strategic terms", and commercial trade "has grown by 10% reaching 15 billion euros", the prime minister said in Tokyo (ANSA) Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this in joint statements to the press with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, after the bilateral meeting in Tokyo.
The new consultation mechanism on security and defense starts in March, and there will be important joint military exercises.