Maritime Security
Foreign Minister IWAYA’s attendance at the Foreign Minister’s Meeting “Reinforcing Maritime Cooperation to Achieve a Secure and Stable Maritime Domain”
September 24, 2025
On September 24, commencing at 3 p.m. local time (September 25, 4 a.m., JST) for approximately 70 minutes, Mr. IWAYA Takeshi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, who is visiting New York, U.S., attended the Foreign Ministers’ Meeting: “Reinforcing Maritime Cooperation to Achieve a Secure and Stable Maritime Domain”. The overview of the meeting is as follows.
- Alongside with the co-hosts, including Japan, the Philippines have taken the initiative to convene this meeting as the host, and many Foreign Ministers from the like-minded countries participated in the meeting.
- At the meeting, Minister Iwaya pointed out that in order to maintain the maritime order, it is extremely important to comply with international law, particularly the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which sets out the universal and unified legal framework governing all activities in the oceans and the seas. He also expressed that Japan will continue to work with the international community, in order to uphold the international order based on the rule of law and achieve a secure and stable maritime domain.