Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed on Wednesday to closely coordinate their responses to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and assistance to the war-torn country.
Kishida told Macron during their phone talks that he attaches great importance to Japanese-French cooperation in safeguarding the rules-based international order undermined by Russia’s war in Ukraine and realizing a free and open Indo-Pacific, according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry.
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