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Japan-Australia Vice Ministers’ Telephone Meeting
July 23, 2025
On July 23, commencing at 2:00 p.m. for approximately 40 minutes, Mr. FUNAKOSHI Takehiro, Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, held a telephone meeting with Her Excellency Ms. Jan Adams, Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia. The overview is as follows.
- The two sides had a candid exchange of views on a wide range of issues in the Indo-Pacific region, including the situations in East Asia, and confirmed that, amid an increasingly severe regional strategic environment, Japan and Australia continue strengthening cooperation toward the realization of a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific” as the central pillar of the coordination among like-minded countries.
- The two sides concurred that they would steadily advance cooperation in a wide range of fields, including security, economy, and people-to-people exchanges, with a view to next year’s 50th anniversary of the signing of the Japan-Australia Basic Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation.