Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will attend this year’s IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore — a major international security forum — as the keynote speaker, The Japan Times has learned.
Sources familiar with the event confirmed his participation Thursday in the 19th iteration of the summit, marking the first time a Japanese prime minister will attend since Shinzo Abe’s appearance in 2014. The summit will be held from June 10 to 12.
In his keynote address, the prime minister, who was recently on a diplomatic tour of Europe and Southeast Asia, is expected to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a violation of international law and call for increased international cooperation to counter any unilateral attempts to change the status quo using force, especially in the Indo-Pacific region.