Prime Minister’s Official Residence, Tokyo
13 December 2013

President Benigno S. Aquino III together with the other nine Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders met at the dinner hosted by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Madame Akie Abe held at the Prime Minister’s Official Residence in Tokyo.
Prime Minister Abe invited the ASEAN Heads of State to offer a minute of silence for the Philippines in relation to the super typhoon Yolanda that devastated most of the provinces in the Visayas region before the dinner started.
The ASEAN leaders are currently in Japan to attend and participate at the ASEAN-Japan Commemorative Summit that will commence on December 14.

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