Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya held his first meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday in Washington, with the two agreeing to take the U.S.-Japan alliance to “new heights” and touting the importance of trilateral ties with South Korea and the Philippines.
"We agreed to continue to work together to take the Japan-U.S. alliance to new heights and to work closely together to realize a free and open Indo-Pacific,” Iwaya said following the meeting.
Iwaya, who a day earlier became the first top Japanese diplomat to attend a U.S. presidential inauguration, was visiting Washington for talks with officials in President Donald Trump's new administration as Tokyo looks to lay the groundwork for a leaders’ summit with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in the coming weeks.
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