With Japan there has been a "relaunch of collaboration in political and strategic terms. The new consultation mechanism on security and defense starts in March, and there will be important joint military exercises, because Italy intends to have an increasingly significant presence in the Indo-Pacific: the aircraft carrier Cavour, the training ship Vespucci, and our F35s will arrive here."
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this in joint statements to the press with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, after the bilateral meeting in Tokyo.
"Thank you for the warm welcome, and I reiterate the feeling of closeness to the Japanese people following the earthquake tragedy. Japan is a friendly nation with which Italy is working with great harmony at 360 degrees", said Meloni.
"It's been just over a year since we kicked off the strategic partnership, which has translated into concrete facts: the collaboration between our nations has significantly grown."
"There has been an intensification of relations" between Italy and Japan, "which translates into a commercial exchange that has grown by 10%, which has reached over
15 billion
euros
", underlined the prime minister.
THE JOINT STATEMENTS
“I welcome that Italy is increasing its presence in the Indo-Pacific, and that numerous Italian ships, including an aircraft carrier, may call in Japan to participate in exercises,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said
in
statements joint with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, after the bilateral meeting in Tokyo
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