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Budrys in Tokyo: In today's world, we are dealing with the same security issues

Republic of Lithuania - Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Updated 2025-10-23

On 23 October, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Kęstutis Budrys, met with Japan's newly appointed Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi in Tokyo.

During the meeting, Budrys emphasized the importance of the strategic partnership between Lithuania and Japan in the current geopolitical context and called for its strengthening and expansion across various sectors.

"Our strategic partnership needs to be filled as soon as possible with concrete cooperation projects, particularly in the areas of security and societal resilience. We are facing a broad range of threats from Russia, China, and other authoritarian regimes, and we have something to offer each other. Our cooperation is essential to prevent authoritarian regimes from attempting to revise the world order. Democracies must work together," said the Minister.

Lithuanian and Japanese Ministers discussed the security situation in Europe and the Indo-Pacific region. The Minister underlined that the European security and that of the Indo-Pacific region are closely interlinked.

"Russia's aggression has global consequences - it strengthens the aggressive stance of North Korea and China in the Pacific region, promotes Iran's destabilising policy in the Middle East. We must also not forget China's role in supporting Russia's war against Ukraine," the Minister said.

Budrys emphasized that Lithuania takes its security seriously by allocating 5.38% of its GDP to defence in 2026. The country will become the world's leading democratic state in terms of defense investment. At the meeting, the Minister welcomed the intensifying cooperation between Lithuania and Japan in the areas of security, defence, and cyber security and expressed his expectation that NATO-Japan cooperation would continue to deepen and grow.

Lithuania's and Japan's diplomatic leaders also discussed support for Ukraine.

"We thank Japan for its support to Ukraine and for its strong stance on Ukraine within the G7 format. Please continue to actively expand sanctions, enable the transfer of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, and fight the shadow fleet. The G7 has an important role to play here. We want to cooperate more closely on the reconstruction and recovery of Ukraine, and we also need to take coordinated action to tighten sanctions against Russia and counter the activities of the shadow fleet," the Minister noted.