At the Huntsville G-8 Leaders' Summit, Prime Ministers Stephen Harper and Naoto Kan agreed to strengthen peace and security cooperation.
On November 14, they signed the 2010 Canada-Japan Joint Declaration on Political, Peace and Security Cooperation during a bilateral meeting held on the margins of the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Yokohama, Japan (November 13-14).
The signing of the Declaration concludes over a year of negotiations and builds on the 1999 and 2005 Canada-Japan Action Agendas for Peace and Security Cooperation. The Declaration is also expected to foster greater political, peace and security co-operation and co-ordination between the two countries through joint discussions on:
- Exchange of strategic assessments and related information;
- Disarmament and non-proliferation;
- Peacekeeping and peacebuilding, including post-conflict reconstruction;
- Counter-terrorism and transnational organized crime;
- Effective institutions for global and regional security;
- Global energy security;
- Maritime security;
- Natural disaster response, humanitarian assistance and disaster risk reduction;
- Pandemic preparedness and response;
- Security implications of climate change;
- Space; and,
- Cybersecurity.
The Joint Declaration would commence immediately with the expectation that meetings will be held on an ongoing regular basis.
