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Several African foreign ministers are in Japan for the two-day Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD).
The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) Ministerial Meeting kicked off in Japan’s capital Tokyo on Saturday. The two-day meeting is being attended by top diplomats and other senior officials from African countries. A host of foreign ministers from the African region had already arrived in Tokyo to take part in the meeting.
Speaking at the event, Yoichi Fukazawa, parliamentary vice-minister for foreign affairs, said that there are just five years left until 2030, the target date for achieving universal health coverage, a goal which Japan is committed to and led global efforts, according to a Japanese Foreign Ministry statement. The international community must once again remind itself of the goal of achieving UHC and take action before forgetting the lessons learned from COVID-19, Fukazawa said. He also stressed the need to share knowledge and promote collaboration to ensure equitable access to, inter alia, health services as well as immunisations for all.
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According to the ministry, the meeting will discuss on next year’s TICAD 9, which is set to be held next August in the coastal city of Yokohama.
