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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will deliver a prerecorded video address to the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 25. © Reuters

Nikkei staff writers

September 20, 2020 02:01 JST

TOKYO -- Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will stress the importance of international cooperation amid the coronavirus pandemic, especially when it comes to distributing vaccines and medicine to developing countries, in a prerecorded video speech to the United Nations General Assembly this month.