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S.Korean President in NY to attend UNGA
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IANS | 20 Sep, 2022
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has arrived in New York to attend
the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and hold a series of summits on the
sidelines, including a highly anticipated meeting with Japanese Prime
Minister Fumio Kishida.
The New York visit, the second
stop on Yoon's three-nation swing, follows his attendance at Queen
Elizabeth II's state funeral in London and comes ahead of a summit with
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa, reports Yonhap News
Agency.
The President will stay in the city for four days and
deliver his first address to the UNGA on Tuesday before engaging in
bilateral meetings with his US counterpart Joe Biden, Kishida and UN
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, among others.
Yoon will make
his debut on the UN stage with a speech outlining his vision for
increasing solidarity among freedom-loving nations, according to his
office.
The speech will also likely underscore South Korea's
commitment to defending peace against the threat of nuclear weapons and
other weapons of mass destruction, together with allies such as the
United States.
The meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister will
be the first summit between the two nations since December 2019, raising
hope of improving relations badly frayed over wartime forced labour and
other issues related to Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean
Peninsula.
Details of the meeting, including the date and agenda,
have not been confirmed, but South Korean officials maintain it will go
ahead as agreed upon.
Japan, meanwhile, has expressed
reservations about holding a summit before progress is made on the issue
of compensation for Korean forced labour victims, according to Japanese
news reports.
Yoon and Kishida met during the NATO summit in
Madrid in June, including in trilateral talks with Biden, but did not
sit down for one-on-one talks.
The meeting with Biden will be Yoon's second since taking office in May, following their summit in Seoul that month.
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