The Vice President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Antonio Tajani, on a mission to Tokyo to participate in the G7 Foreign Ministerial

The Vice President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Antonio Tajani, on a mission to Tokyo to participate in the G7 Foreign Ministerial

Minister Antonio Tajani will fly to Japan in the evening to participate in the G7. On the sidelines of the meeting there are bilateral meetings with some participants of the Italy-Japan Business Group.
The Vice President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Hon. Antonio Tajani, is leaving this evening for Japan, where he will participate in Tokyo, at the meeting of the G7 Foreign Ministers, scheduled for Next November 7th and 8th.
The event represents the final act of the strand dedicated to foreign affairs of the Japanese Presidency and the moment in which the Vice Prime Minister will take up the baton of G7 Presidency.
On this occasion, Tajani will illustrate to his colleagues the objectives and priorities of the Italian Presidency in 2024.

“The objective that the Government sets itself is to reaffirm the centrality of the G7 in addressing the most important challenges of our time, defending the values ​​and principles of the international order based on clear rules”, commented Minister Antonio Tajani.

The Deputy Prime Minister also added that “the situation in the Middle East will be at the center of the Italian Presidency, also with a view to being able to make a contribution to the construction of the 'day after' in Gaza”.
At the same time, “We will continue to work hard to provide Ukraine with all the necessary support and we will pay great attention to Africa, also from the point of view of the development-migration link”, concluded the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

On the sidelines of the ministerial meeting, Tajani has plans bilateral meetings with colleagues from the Group countries and will meet representatives of Italian companies who are currently in Tokyo to participate in the XXXIII General Assembly of theItaly-Japan Business Group. 
It is an associative body created by the Italian and Japanese business communities to promote greater industrial cooperation between the two countries and encourage a permanent dialogue between the two business communities, which in the intention of the two Governments wants to expand and strengthen to create new industrial opportunities, in line with the level of “strategic partnership” achieved by bilateral relations, especially in sectors with high technological content.