Obama, Japan PM discuss TPP trade deal, Ebola by phone - Jiji


  • World
  • Wednesday, 15 Oct 2014

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a meeting with more than 20 foreign defense chiefs to discuss the coalition efforts in the ongoing campaign against ISIL at Joint Base Andrews in Washington October 14, 2014. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe discussed stalled trade talks and the Ebola virus epidemic in a telephone conversation on Wednesday morning Tokyo time, Jiji news agency reported.

A Japanese official had earlier confirmed that the two leaders would talk by phone.

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