- ARAB NEWS
- 01 May 2025
Since 1975
TOKYO: Japanese Foreign Minister HAYASHI Yoshimasa will visit Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and Poland from September 3 to 10.
In Saudi Arabia, Hayashi will take part in the first Japan-Gulf Cooperation Council Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. He will also meet with his Saudi counterpart as part of the Japan-Saudi Arabia Foreign Ministers Strategic Dialogue to exchange views on bilateral relations, as well as cooperation on regional and international affairs.
In Jordan, Hayashi will have an audience with King Abdullah II and meet with Prime Minister Dr. Bisher Al-Khasawneh and Foreign Minister Ayman Al Safadi. In addition to holding a strategic dialogue, he is scheduled to attend meetings and events on economic cooperation.
In Egypt, Hayashi will pay a courtesy call on President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry. He will also meet Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the Secretary-General of the Arab League, and take part in Trilateral Ministerial-Level Talks and the Third Japan-Arab Political Dialogue to exchange views on Japan-Arab cooperation.
In September 2013, KISHIDA Fumio – currently Japan’s Prime Minister – and then Secretary-General of the Arab League El Arabi signed a memorandum of understanding on Japan-Arab cooperation and established Japan’s first comprehensive cooperation framework that includes all Arab countries.
Hayashi will pay a courtesy call on Polish President Andrzej Duda and Jadwiga Emilewicz, Secretary of State, Government Plenipotentiary for Polish-Ukrainian Development Cooperation. He will also hold a Japan-Poland Foreign Ministers’ Meeting to exchange views on strategic issues, including bilateral relations and the situation in Ukraine.
The visits aim to reaffirm Japan’s commitment to peace and prosperity and to air discussions on how to deal with important international issues and further cooperation.
Hayashi will leave Tokyo on Sept. 3 to fly to Jordan, followed by Egypt on Sept. 4, Saudi Arabia on Sept. 6 and Poland on Sept. 8. He will leave Poland arrive back in Japan on the 10th.
