Japanese PM holds 1st meeting with foreign leader
15:30, 18 September 2009
TOKYO. September 18. KAZINFORM Japan's new-elected Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama held his first meeting Friday with a foreign leader-- visiting Italian President Giorgio Napolitano; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
"I am honored to meet you as my first foreign guest," Hatoyama told the Italian president at the beginning of their meeting.
"I want to strengthen not just Japanese-Italian relations but also Japanese-European Union relations," the Japanese premier was quoted by the foreign ministry as saying; Kazinform cites Xinhua.
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