Japan: Tokyo and EU announce security partnership amid growing regional tensions

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Japan and the European Union announced a security and defense partnership, as they seek to step up military ties amid growing tensions with china, North Korea and Russia.

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00:00Japan and the European Union announced a security and defence partnership as they seek to step

00:05up militarised and growing tensions with China, North Korea and Russia.

00:10The announcement was made Friday during a press conference in Tokyo given by European

00:15Union Foreign Policy Chief Joseph Borrell and Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Ieya

00:20Iwaiya.

00:21According to the two officials, the agreement is the first that the European Union has concluded

00:26with an Asia-Pacific country.

00:28The European Union top diplomat affirmed that partnerships among friends was the only antidote

00:33to this challenging world of growing rivalries, climate accidents and threats of war.

00:39Borrell's visit is part of an East Asia tour that includes South Korea, where he will

00:44also hold a strategic dialogue underscoring the European Union's increasing engagement

00:49with the Asia-Pacific region.

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