President Biden
Joe BidenBiden taps California workplace safety leader to head up OSHA Romney blasts end of filibuster, expansion of SCOTUS US mulling cash payments to help curb migration MORE’s first in-person meeting with a foreign leader in Washington, D.C., will be with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, according to a senior administration official, though the timing of the meeting has not been decided.
“We’ve not established yet a firm date for this, but we are working closely to ensure that this is convenient and that the standards are in place on both sides,” a senior administration official told reporters.
The meeting will be significant, particularly because Biden has not yet met with a foreign leader in person since taking office. Japan represents a key U.S. ally in the Pacific, and Suga was elected prime minister of Japan last September, succeeding Shinzo Abe.
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Biden has held bilateral virtual meetings with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
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Officials also recently announced that Secretary of State Antony Blinken
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