French President and Japanese Prime Minister to visit Notre-Dame construction site

French President and Japanese Prime Minister to visit Notre-Dame construction site - French President Emmanuel Macron and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida are due to visit the construction site of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris this Monday. Japan's PM Fumio Kishida is set to begin a tour of Europe and North America on Monday in Paris to meet his counterparts from other G7 countries, of which Japan took over the presidency this year. Macron and his host will visit Notre-Dame before a working dinner at the Elysée Palace focusing on the challenges of the G7 presidency and the "exceptional partnership" between the two countries. This is the first time Emmanuel Macron has invited a foreign leader to the site.

 

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