Japan Foreign Ministry Roundup for November 10: 1 Billion Yen Security Assistance for Sri Lanka, G7 Ministers Meet in Paris on Crises and Super Intelligence
Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a new round of official updates on November 10, covering 16 items: Japan and Sri Lanka signed and exchanged notes for the fiscal 2026 Official Security Assistance (OSA) project; the G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting held two thematic sessions in Paris; Prime Minister TAKAICHI Sanae held a summit meeting in Tokyo with To Lam, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Viet Nam and President of Viet Nam; Foreign Minister MOTEGI Toshimitsu exchanged views with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Paris and held separate meetings with the foreign ministers of France, Italy and the United Kingdom; and the visits to Japan of Mexico's foreign secretary and the President of the Marshall Islands were announced the same day.
The OSA project for Sri Lanka was signed in Colombo on November 10, in the amount of 1 billion yen. ISOMATA Akio, Japan's Ambassador to Sri Lanka, signed and exchanged notes with Dr. Harshana Suriyapperuma, Secretary to the Treasury and the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development of Sri Lanka, in the presence of Secretary of Defence Sampath Thuyacontha. OSA is Japan's grant aid framework providing equipment, supplies and infrastructure support to the armed forces and related organizations of recipient countries, aimed at enhancing their security and deterrence capabilities and deepening security cooperation with Japan.
On November 9, Prime Minister Takaichi held a summit meeting of about 50 minutes in Tokyo with President To Lam, and the two leaders issued the Japan-Viet Nam Joint Vision Statement. They confirmed economic security as a new priority area, including cooperation on rare-earth metals through initiatives such as RISE+ for supply chain resilience, joint research and safety cooperation on super intelligence (SI), LNG and gas-fired power projects, and an aim for the early realization of the first provision of peacekeeping equipment to Viet Nam under the OSA framework. GSM has published a separate detailed report on the summit.
The first G7 session, on November 9 in Paris, took up "Crises and International Challenges" over about 90 minutes in a working-lunch format, with World Food Programme Executive Director Luke Lindberg joining part of the session. Minister Motegi stressed opposition to any unilateral attempt to change the status quo by force or coercion and said the security of the Euro-Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific is indivisible. The ministers reiterated their opposition to unilateral changes to the status quo, including in the East China Sea, the South China Sea and across the Taiwan Strait, strongly condemned North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, reaffirmed the complete denuclearization of North Korea under UN Security Council resolutions, urged an immediate resolution of the abductions issue, and agreed to address malicious cyber activities including cryptocurrency thefts. On economic security, they confirmed they would work together against non-market policies and practices and economic coercion, including arbitrary export restrictions.
The second session, on super intelligence, lasted about 60 minutes, with the foreign ministers of Brazil, the Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia and Egypt invited. Minister Motegi said the key questions in using SI were ensuring meaningful human involvement and responding, nationally and through international coordination, to malicious use including cybercrime. He proposed continued discussion among like-minded countries including the G7 toward a common understanding, and promotion of the Hiroshima AI Process framework launched at the 2023 G7 Hiroshima Summit. The ministers recognized the need for the safe and trustworthy development of frontier SI and stressed strengthening the security and resilience of undersea cables, which carry about 99 percent of international data traffic, through international cooperation.
That afternoon in Paris, Minister Motegi held an exchange of views with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. They shared the view that, amid an increasingly severe security environment, Japan and the United States would further advance security cooperation to strengthen the deterrence and response capabilities of the Japan-U.S. Alliance. They also exchanged views on regional situations including the Indo-Pacific, concurred on maintaining close communication, and reaffirmed close work on challenges facing the international community, including those regarding the International Criminal Court.
On economic security, the first Japan-Netherlands Economic Security Consultations were held in Tokyo on November 9, co-chaired on the Japanese side by MATANO Motosada, Director-General of the Economic Affairs Bureau of the Foreign Ministry, and NARITA Tatsuji, Director-General of the Trade and Economic Security Bureau of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and on the Dutch side by Yvette VAN EECHOUD, Deputy Director-General for Trade and Economic Security, among others. The two sides exchanged views on economic security policies, developments in East Asia and Europe, and the protection of critical and emerging technologies. The Japanese side conveyed strong concerns about the EU's Industrial Accelerator Act, and the two sides agreed to hold the consultations regularly and deepen bilateral economic security cooperation.
Two visits were announced on November 10: Roberto Velasco Álvarez, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, will visit Japan from November 13 to 15 as a guest of the Foreign Ministry and will hold a Foreign Ministers' Meeting with Minister Motegi, in his first visit to Japan and his third meeting with Motegi; and Dr. Hilda C. HEINE, President of the Marshall Islands, and her spouse Mr. Thomas Kijiner Jr. will pay an official visit to Japan from November 24 to 27, during which they will make a State Call on Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress, attend a Court Luncheon, and hold a meeting with Prime Minister Takaichi.
The round also included Prime Minister Takaichi's participation in a meeting on SI security hosted by France; Foreign Minister Motegi's separate Japan-France, Japan-Italy and Japan-UK foreign ministers' meetings in Paris; the summary of results of the invitation of experts from the Caucasus countries; a courtesy call on State Minister for Foreign Affairs HORII by Mr. Junichi MATSUDA, President of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations; a courtesy call on Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary OZAKI by Permanent Representatives to the UN, incoming members of the UN Security Council; and a courtesy call on State Minister for Foreign Affairs NAKASONE by Mr. Zykas, Ambassador of Lithuania to Japan.
(Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan)
Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
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