Joint leaders’ statement issued during the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to the United States, April 16, 2021
PRESIDENT Joseph R. Biden is honored to welcome Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga for the first foreign-leader visit of his presidency. Today, the United States and Japan renew an alliance that has become a cornerstone of peace and security in the Indo-Pacific region and around the world. An ocean separates our countries, but commitments to universal values and common principles, including freedom, democracy, human rights, the rule of law, international law, multilateralism and a free and fair economic order, unite us. Together we pledge to demonstrate free and democratic nations, working together, are able to address the global threats from Covid-19 and climate change while resisting challenges to the free and open rules-based international order. Through this new era of friendship between the United States and Japan, each of our democracies will grow stronger still.
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