Biden shares with the Japanese Prime Minister his “outrage and sadness” over the death of Shinzo Abe

July 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has expressed this Friday during a conversation with the Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, his “outrage, sadness and deep condolences” for the “tragic and violent” death by a shot of the former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Biden has stressed to his Japanese counterpart that both he and the American people support Kishida and the people of Japan in their mourning for Abe’s murder this Friday morning while he was participating in an electoral event in the city of Nara, in the southwest of the country, as detailed by the White House in a statement.

Likewise, the US president has underlined the importance of the “lasting legacy” of the former Japanese prime minister with “his vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific”, and with the constitution of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD, for its acronym in English ), in which Japan, Australia, India and the United States discuss the strategic security of the Indo-Pacific region.

The US president also underlined the United States’ “unwavering confidence” in Japanese democracy, and discussed with Kishida how Abe’s legacy “will live on as we continue the exercise of defending peace and democracy.”