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MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines and Japan will conduct their first foreign and defense ministerial meeting, known as the 2+2, on April 9 in Tokyo to boost collaboration despite the growing complexity of the regional and international security environment, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).

The Philippine delegation will be led by Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. and National Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana.

The meeting, which President Rodrigo Duterte and Japanese Foreign Minister Kishida Fumio Kishida agreed to during their tele-summit in November 2021, will be the “next logical progression” in Tokyo and Manila’s deepening policy and security cooperation and is expected to be a key component in strengthening the two countries’ decade-old strategic partnership, according to the DFA.

Japan is one of only two countries with which the Philippines has a 2+2 conversation system, the other being the United States.

The DFA said in a statement that the two countries had developed close ties in various areas of cooperation over the past six decades, resulting in improvements in maritime law enforcement capabilities, increased maritime domain awareness, and enhanced counterterrorism and Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) capabilities, among other things.

The DFA has yet to disclose specifics on the themes that will be discussed, but it has stated that the meeting will build the foundation for a Philippine-Japanese security partnership in the coming decade.

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