{"id":4023,"date":"2019-06-20T06:40:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T06:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/?p=4023"},"modified":"2019-06-20T06:40:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T06:40:10","slug":"japan-pakistan-defense-cooperation-would-keep-expanding-further-envoy-kuninori-matsuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/japan-pakistan-defense-cooperation-would-keep-expanding-further-envoy-kuninori-matsuda\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan-Pakistan Defense Cooperation would keep Expanding Further -Envoy Kuninori Matsuda"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Islamabad: 19th June, 2019 -Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan, H.E. Mr. Kuninori Matsuda and Mrs. Naoko
\nMatsuda hosted a reception on Wednesday 19th June, 2019 to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Day. Lt. General Sahir\u00a0Shamshad Mirza, HI(M), Adjutant General, General Headquarters, was the
\nchief guest on the occasion. <\/span><\/p>\n

Colonel Mamoru Nanjo, Defense Attach\u00e9,Embassy of Japan, represented the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF). The
\nreception was attended by the parliamentarians, senior civilian and military officials of the Government of Pakistan, members of the diplomatic community and other dignitaries from the public and private sectors.<\/span><\/p>\n

JSDF Day celebrates the establishment of the Japan Defense Agency and the inauguration of the Japan Ground, Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces on 1st July, 1954. The Japan Defense Agency was upgraded to the Ministry of
\nDefense in 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n

In his welcome speech, H.E. Mr. Kuninori Matsuda, Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan, touched upon the various aspects of the long history of Japan Pakistan friendship while emphasizing the need for further collaboration as
\nthere are lots of potentials to develop between the two countries. <\/span><\/p>\n

He said that JSDF in collaboration with Pakistani forces carried out missions at the times of natural disasters and counter-piracy operations in the waters off the coast of
\nSomalia and in the Gulf of Aden, called CTF-151. <\/span><\/p>\n

A unit of antisubmarine patrol aircraft, P-3C, and vessels from Maritime Self Defense Force participated in a
\nmultinational naval exercise called AMAN which was organized by the Pakistan\u00a0 Navy recently to advance mutual understandings.<\/span><\/p>\n

On recent development of Japan-Pakistan defense cooperation, Ambassador Matsuda informed that on Tuesday June 18th , Japan and Pakistan signed a
\nMemorandum of Understanding on Defense Cooperation and Exchanges and hoped that defense cooperation between the two countries would keep expanding further.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the same day, the seventh round of Japan-Pakistan
\nSecurity Dialogue was held, where two sides exchanged views on security policies as well as regional and global issues, said Ambassador Matsuda.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Islamabad: 19th June, 2019 -Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan, H.E. Mr. Kuninori Matsuda and Mrs. Naoko Matsuda hosted a reception on Wednesday 19th June, 2019 to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Japan Self-Defense Forces Day. Lt. General Sahir\u00a0Shamshad Mirza, HI(M), Adjutant General, General Headquarters, was the chief guest on the occasion. Colonel Mamoru Nanjo, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4025,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions\/4025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}