AFP, Tokyo :
Japanese investment in the UK has hit a “record high” since last year’s shock Brexit vote, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Friday, during a visit to Tokyo.
Johnson, who backed Britain’s campaign to quit the European Union, also pledged London would “build a fantastic relationship with our friends and partners in the EU” after talks with his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida.
And referring to growing regional tensions over North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme, he called on China to pressure Pyongyang to agree to fresh negotiations.
After the second round of contentious talks on Britain’s exit from the political bloc ended this week, the EU’s Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier warned that “fundamental” differences remained between London and Brussels.
Japanese investment in the UK has hit a “record high” since last year’s shock Brexit vote, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Friday, during a visit to Tokyo.
Johnson, who backed Britain’s campaign to quit the European Union, also pledged London would “build a fantastic relationship with our friends and partners in the EU” after talks with his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida.
And referring to growing regional tensions over North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme, he called on China to pressure Pyongyang to agree to fresh negotiations.
After the second round of contentious talks on Britain’s exit from the political bloc ended this week, the EU’s Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier warned that “fundamental” differences remained between London and Brussels.
