Japan and Mexico Foreign Ministers Meet in Tokyo: Committee for Future Ties and Deeper Economic Security Cooperation Agreed
Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on November 13, 2026, that Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi held a bilateral meeting and working dinner in Tokyo with Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Roberto Velasco Álvarez, lasting approximately 110 minutes, on the Mexican minister's first visit to Japan in four years as a guest of the ministry.
The two ministers welcomed progress in the Joint Task Force established at their previous meeting and concurred on accelerating work toward the swift establishment of a Japan-Mexico Committee, which will make recommendations to the two countries' leaders on medium- to long-term relations. Motegi noted that Japan's 17 strategic sectors share much in common with the priority areas of Plan Mexico, including supply chain resilience, critical infrastructure, medical care and health, and agriculture and food, and the ministers agreed to deepen cooperation on economic security.
They also agreed to continue strengthening energy cooperation, to work together on water treatment including river purification and on the sargassum issue, and to coordinate toward the early convening of the first Japan-Mexico High-Level Economic Dialogue. Motegi asked for cooperation in creating a favourable business environment for Japanese companies in Mexico, and Velasco said the presence of Japanese companies is important for Mexico as well. (Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan)
Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
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