The trilateral meeting occurred on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Turkey.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun during the NATO Summit in Ankara, Turkey, to discuss NATO’s cooperation with Indo-Pacific partners. The secretary and foreign ministers also signed a trilateral memorandum of cooperation on civil nuclear energy to facilitate the deployment of small modular reactors in third partner countries.
State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott stated, “The Secretary and the Foreign Ministers reiterated their shared commitment to the complete denuclearization of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). They also committed to strengthen trilateral cooperation to deter the DPRK’s malicious cyber and information technology worker activities and reiterated their commitment to the immediate resolution of the issues of abductees, detainees, and unrepatriated prisoners of war as well as the issue of separated families.”
Spokesman Pigott added, “The Secretary and the Foreign Ministers emphasized the importance of maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and expressed concern about increasingly frequent destabilizing actions around Taiwan. They also encouraged the peaceful resolution of cross-Strait issues and opposed any attempts to unilaterally change the status quo, particularly by force or coercion.”
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
- For Secretary Rubio and U.S. diplomats as they engage in discussions with foreign ministers on international security and economics.
- For the president and his Cabinet members to receive God’s direction as they set foreign policies.
Sources: Department of State
