01/23/2009
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"We are working to foster economic prosperity, maintain stability, counter proliferation, stand up for gender equality, and promote universal values in the Asia-Pacific region and around the globe."
"We are working together in the APEC and the G20 on the promotion of the role of women, which is an important domestic and foreign policy priority for both countries."
"Those women were violated in ways that, even in the midst of war, was shocking."
"The United States and Japan fully support the use of diplomatic and legal means, including international arbitration, to settle maritime disputes in the South China Sea."