Joint statement of the 26th EU-Japan summit
Met dank overgenomen van Raad van de Europese Unie (Raad) i, gepubliceerd op donderdag 25 april 2019.
President of the European Council Donald Tusk, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and Prime Minister of Japan Shinzō Abe, met in Brussels on 25 April 2019 for the 26th EU-Japan summit.
The leaders reaffirmed their strong support for the rules-based international order, for promoting multilateralism as well as free and fair global trade, and coordinated their positions in view of the G20 summit on 28-29 June in Osaka. The summit was also an opportunity to appraise the implementation of the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and the EU-Japan Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA). They issued the following joint statement.