Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends the construction completion ceremony of the New National Stadium on December 15, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan. Tomohiro Ohsumi/Pool via REUTERS
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday asked Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to stick to commitments made in a landmark 2015 nuclear deal and said Japan would do what it can to ensure stability in the Middle East.
"Japan would like to do its utmost to ease tensions and stabilise the situation in the Middle East," Abe told Rouhani at the start of a meeting between the two leaders in Tokyo.
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