TOKYO, Aug. 21 -- Prime Minister and His Cabinet issued the following highlight:
On August 21, commencing at 4:20 p.m., for approximately 25 minutes, Mr. ISHIBA Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan, held a summit meeting with H.E. General Evariste NDAYISHIMIYE, President of the Republic of Burundi, who is visiting Japan to participate in the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9). The overview of the meeting is as follows:
1. At the outset, Prime Minister Ishiba, while mentioning that President Ndayishimiye was appointed as the AU champion for youth, stated that "youth" is one of the cross-cutting themes of TICAD 9 and expressed his expectation that young people on both in Japan and Africa would work together t...