The first foreign leader to meet US President Joe Biden in person may be Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. The latter plans to visit the United States in April, the Japanese government announced on Friday March 12. “If circumstances permit, Prime Minister Suga will visit the United States from the first half of April,” Japanese government spokesman Katsunobu Kato told reporters.
Yoshihide Suga would thus become “the first foreign leader to meet face to face” with Joe Biden, who entered the White House in January, added Katsunobu Kato. The possibility of a visit by the Japanese Prime Minister to the United States had already been mentioned in the Japanese and American media, but had not been officially confirmed. Tokyo had previously signaled Yoshihide Suga’s intention to meet with the US leader as soon as possible in order to strengthen the partnership between the two countries, amid concerns about China.
The Japanese delegation will be vaccinated
Katsunobu Kato specified that the meeting would notably have as themes the situation in the Indo-Pacific zone, measures against the coronavirus pandemic and climate change. The precise schedule for the visit is still being worked out, he added. Katsunobu Kato also said Prime Minister Suga and the other members of the Japanese delegation would all be vaccinated before traveling to Washington.
The vaccination campaign has started slowly in the Japanese archipelago, with some 180,000 health workers having been vaccinated so far. Joe Biden and Yoshihide Suga were to participate later in the day with the Australian and Indian Prime Ministers in a virtual summit of the “Quad”, the alliance which aims to counterbalance Chinese power.
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