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The Second Day of the ASEAN+3, Japan-ASEAN and East Asia Summit (EAS) Summit Meetings Monday, January 15, 2007 JAPANESE

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe participated in the East Asia Summit (EAS), held on Cebu Island in the Republic of the Philippines. At the meeting, Prime Minister Abe announced a cooperation initiative calling for human resource development to promote energy conservation and biomass energy, based on an energy security perspective. Prime Minister Abe also discussed modalities of future cooperation concerning five priority areas for the EAS: energy; education; natural disaster mitigation; avian influenza; and finance. In the afternoon, Prime Minister Abe, along with other participant leaders, held the signing ceremony for the Cebu Declaration on East Asian Energy Security. The Chairman's Statement of the Second East Asia Summit, which was announced after the signing ceremony, welcomed Japan's energy cooperation initiative. It also called for the commencement of specific cooperation in the five priority areas and urged North Korea to address its nuclear and abduction issues. Having completed his itinerary in Europe and the Philippines, Prime Minister Abe returned to Japan on the government plane that evening.