Trump to have telephone talks with Abe on Saturday: White House
WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- U.S. President Donald Trump will have
telephone talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday
morning, the White House said Friday.
No further details were immediately known, but Trump and Abe are expected to discuss the date and agenda of what will be their first official meeting, being arranged for around Feb. 10 in Washington.
Abe and Trump held unofficial talks in New York in November shortly after the latter's victory in the U.S. presidential election.
During the planned telephone talks, the two leaders may touch on the bilateral security alliance and trade issues following Trump's announcement Monday that the United States has pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement also involving Japan and 10 other nations.
Japanese officials have said the Abe government will continue to try to convince Trump of the benefits of the TPP, while not ruling out bilateral trade talks with the United States.
Speaking at the Diet on Thursday, Abe did not rule out the possibility of pursuing a bilateral free trade agreement or economic partnership agreement with the United States.
"We will appeal (to the U.S. administration) on the TPP, but that doesn't mean we absolutely can't also (sign) an EPA or FTA, as we did with Australia," another TPP member, the prime minister said.
In dumping the TPP, White House press secretary Sean Spicer indicated the Trump administration will pursue bilateral trade deals that would benefit American workers and industry in line with its "America First" mantra, rather than multilateral ones such as the TPP, which Trump has called a job-killing "disaster."
Trump, who was sworn in on Jan. 20, has also accused Japan of conducting trade practices in the automobile sector that he said are "not fair" to American companies.
No further details were immediately known, but Trump and Abe are expected to discuss the date and agenda of what will be their first official meeting, being arranged for around Feb. 10 in Washington.
Abe and Trump held unofficial talks in New York in November shortly after the latter's victory in the U.S. presidential election.
During the planned telephone talks, the two leaders may touch on the bilateral security alliance and trade issues following Trump's announcement Monday that the United States has pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement also involving Japan and 10 other nations.
Japanese officials have said the Abe government will continue to try to convince Trump of the benefits of the TPP, while not ruling out bilateral trade talks with the United States.
Speaking at the Diet on Thursday, Abe did not rule out the possibility of pursuing a bilateral free trade agreement or economic partnership agreement with the United States.
"We will appeal (to the U.S. administration) on the TPP, but that doesn't mean we absolutely can't also (sign) an EPA or FTA, as we did with Australia," another TPP member, the prime minister said.
In dumping the TPP, White House press secretary Sean Spicer indicated the Trump administration will pursue bilateral trade deals that would benefit American workers and industry in line with its "America First" mantra, rather than multilateral ones such as the TPP, which Trump has called a job-killing "disaster."
Trump, who was sworn in on Jan. 20, has also accused Japan of conducting trade practices in the automobile sector that he said are "not fair" to American companies.
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