By Martin Kammandel.
Japan and the EU held their annual summit on 29 May 2015 in Tokyo to discuss a potential free trade agreement as well as security cooperation.
Nipponese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, announced the schedule and programme at the G7 meeting in Germany.
The summit was the first for European Council President Donald Tusk and President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker. They were joined by Federica Mogherini and EU trade chief Cecilia Malmström in Tokyo.
Japan is aiming at achieving a broad agreement on trade liberation with the EU by the end of 2015, albeit numerous hurdles in areas such as EU tariffs on Japanese car imports remain. During the negotiations the Japanese have called upon their European partners to eliminate such tariffs.
From Brussels the summit was coordinated by HE Ambassador Keiichi Katakami, Head of Mission of the Representation of Japan to the EU, and his his deputy, HE Ambassador Jiro Okuyama.
For more information:
Mission of Japan to the EU: http://www.eu.emb-japan.go.jp/
Pictures to the European Council
