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Article: Japan, Australia sign joint declaration on strategic security cooperation
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 13, 2007
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Japan, Australia sign joint declaration on strategic security
cooperation
TOKYO, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Japan and Australia signed a joint
declaration on strategic security cooperation here on Tuesday, vowing
to strengthen ties in security and defense issues.
The declaration was signed later in the day by Japanese Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe and Australian Prime Minister John Howard, who is
on a four-day tour in Japan starting Sunday.
In the joint declaration, the two countries pledge to coordinate
policies over counterterrorism, nuclear nonproliferation, and the
Korean peninsula nuclear issue, and will have closer cooperation on
UN peacekeeping operations.
According to the ...