Press Releases
Messages of Condolences from Prime Minister Abe and Foreign Minister Kishida
to the President and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil Regarding the Plane Crash in Colombia
December 1, 2016
Following the plane crash that occurred in the Republic of Colombia on November 28 which resulted in a large number of casualties, Mr. Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, and Mr. Fumio Kishida, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, respectively sent messages of condolences to H.E. Mr. Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, and H.E. Mr. José Serra, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federative Republic of Brazil, in which they offered their prayers for the souls of those who lost their lives in the accident and expressed their condolences to the families of the victims, along with extending their sympathies to the injured.