cooperate in strengthening the supply

Like with Indonesia, Ishiba also pledged to continue providing assistance to Malaysia under Japan’s OSA program which provides defense equipment to Tokyo’s allies. Ishiba and Ibrahim also discussed economic issues and agreed to further strengthen their efforts in the Asia Zero Emission Community plan to establish a carbon-neutral Asia in the future. They also agreed to cooperate in strengthening the supply chain for essential products such as semiconductors. The two leaders also agreed to cooperate in providing support to Palestine, a major concern for Malaysia which has a large Muslim population. Malaysia is not only a key nation for sea lanes in the region, but also serves as chair of ASEAN. The importance that Japan attaches to Malaysia and the ASEAN grouping is demonstrated from the fact that Ishiba is the fourth consecutive prime minister of Japan to choose a nation in that region for the first foreign visit outside of an international conference. สล็อต