Foreign affairs and international co-operation minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed (ABZ) Al-Nahyanmet a number of senior Japanese officials during an early April visit, including economy minister Hiroshige Seko, defence minister Itsunori Onodera and agriculture, forestry and fisheries minister Ken Saito. ABZ chaired the first meeting of the UAE-Japan Policy Dialogue on 2 April. Thenext day he held wide-ranging talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, covering technology, agriculture, renewable energy, defence and space exploration.