TOKYO (Kyodo) – Japan and Cambodia agreed on Saturday to reopen the borders to expats, in all likelihood from the beginning of September, provided they practice a 14-day auto-40 era and take extra precautions against the new coronavirus.
Chancellor Toshimitsu Motegi agreed with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen when they met in Phnom Penh at Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It is the third such agreement that Japan has reached this month after those of Singapore and Malaysia, as Tokyo seeks tactics to ease its restrictions on foreign nationals’ access to nearly 150 countries since the COVID-19 outbreak of the virus. respiratory disease.
Motegi aims to conclude similar resumption travel arrangements with Laos and Myanmar, which it will stop at the last two stages of its four-country tour until Tuesday. Before arriving in Cambodia, he was in Papua New Guinea.
He also told the prime minister that Japan is in a position to allow access to Cambodian academics sponsored by the Japanese government at a close date, according to the ministry.
In addition to bilateral affairs, they discussed conditions in the South China Sea and North Korea, and agreed close cooperation on these issues, the ministry said.
Motegi also held separate talks with his Cambodian counterpart Prak Sokhonn, who also serves as the country’s deputy prime minister, and the two agreed to speed up talks to ease access restrictions for short-term business travellers, he said.
Subscribe to our newsletters to get our stories right in your inbox.
You want an Array subscription..