Prime Minister and LDP President Abe received a courtesy call from Deputy Prime Minister Recep Akdağ of the Republic of Turkey, who was in Japan on a rigorous schedule as the head of his country's disaster preparedness efforts, giving a keynote speech to the Party's Headquarters for Promoting the Establishment of a Disaster Resilient Japan (Chairperson: Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai). They confirmed that the two countries would use their experiences in tragic earthquakes to further cooperate in the area of disaster preparedness.

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