Admin l Thursday, May 27, 2021
BRUSSELS – President of the European Union, Mr. Charles Michel has said that the EU will work with Japan on emerging technologies, critical materials, 5G, 6G, artificial intelligence and data platform.
“We will work with Japan on emerging technologies, critical materials, 5G, 6G, artificial intelligence, data and platforms”, he said, adding that the relationship will boost the competitiveness of both the EU and Japan and set standards in multilateral fora. He said the EU wants to make the next 10 years ‘our digital decade’.
He described Japan as the EU’s first connectivity partner and must continue to make concrete progress on high standard infrastructure projects in third countries. President Charles Michel explained that its first common priority is to defeat covid-19 and to ensure a sustainable and inclusive recovery and that the European Union is playing a major role.
“We are the largest exporter of vaccines and with Japan we are firmly committed to COVAX. Prime Minister Suga will host the COVAX pledging summit next week, and we hope these efforts will help secure sufficient resources to vaccinate 30% of the world’s population by the end of this year. And the EU plans to share at least 100 million doses of vaccines this year. It is key to keep supply chains open.
“We must also be ready for future pandemics. I have proposed with Dr Tedros, an international treaty on pandemics in the framework of the WHO”, he said.
