The cooperation between Italy and
Japan is based on respect and reciprocal trust, which are
principles that should be fostered and developed by the
international community and include open markets and reciprocal
cooperation that create the conditions to maintain peace
worldwide, Italian President Sergio Mattarella said on Wednesday
at the end of an event organized at the headquarters of business
association Confindustria in Tokyo.
Between Italy and Japan there is "full cooperation based on
respect and reciprocal trust.
"They are principles and values that we hope will be maintained
and developed in the international community: they are those of
the opening of markets, the opening of reciprocal cooperation in
the awareness of a reciprocal enrichment and interdependence
which is created and which highlights the conditions for which
peace is guaranteed in the world", Mattarella said at the event
attended by Italian and Japanese business leaders during his
official visit to Japan.
Praising the relationship between the European Union and Tokyo
thanks to the elimination of tariffs, Mattarella said that,
"today the integration between the two markets is increasingly
closer, thanks to the economic partnership agreement (EPA)
signed in 2019 by Tokyo and Brussels which eliminated tariffs on
European exports towards Japan and vice versa, far from a return
to protectionism".
The president went on to says that "the Japanese economy, which
is among the first in the world" has increasingly become a
strategic partner for Europe as part of a commitment to build
intercontinental relationships that support "peace, stability
and prosperity".
"The idea of a free and open Indo-Pacific is essential to the
world's development" and to ease tensions - an "alternative
between cooperation and demands to dominate", noted the
president.
Mattarella also highlighted in his address that "the close
relationship that unites the European Union and Japan is the
outcome of a common feeling: the awareness that only a
relationship between equals in international life brings
widespread advantages and that this is based on the law and on
the institutions organized for this aim".
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