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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his visiting Spanish counterpart Mariano Rajoy mulberry bags outlet on Thursday agreed to boost bilateral security and economic relations, according to local media. During their meet in Tokyo, the two prime ministers agreed to strengthen defense ties by holding annual high-level talks between the two countries' foreign ministers and defense dialogue on a regular basis. They also agreed to put their economies to a growth path and support their firms to expand into Latin American and Asian markets by sharing information and experiences, reported Japan's Kyodo News, citing a joint statement released after the summit. The two leaders also agreed to hold regular talks between senior officials responsible for Latin America and the mulberry bags Caribbean, with Rajoy welcoming Japan's future participation as an observer in the Ibero-American Summit, a trans-Atlantic grouping encompasses Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries in Europe and the Americas, said the report. Negotiations between the Philippines and the United States on a framework agreement for increased rotational presence of American forces in the Southeast Asian country hit a snag with differing positions on some critical or important provisions of the proposed pact, a senior military official said on Thursday. Philippine Defense Undersecretary Pio Lorenzo Batino said in a press briefing after the fourth round of negotiations held in military headquarters Camp Aguinaldo there are a lot of work to be done as a result of these relogio michael kors gaps. Batino did not elaborate where the gaps occurred but acknowledged that the "substantial features" of the agreement deal with facilities, reposition of assets, and peripheral issues on definition of facilities. "The two panels, after four rounds of negotiations, have come to understand the concerns of (both sides) and there is a recognition that both have different concerns, different requirements in the internal processes, different government requirements," said Batino. "While we have narrowed down the discussions to these substantive issues, there are still gaps in our positions. Both panels scrutinized all the proposals that were put on the negotiating table," said michael kors bags uk Batino, the head of the Philippine panel. He refused to dwell on the details, saying "I don't think a discussion of these details in public will be respectful of the negotiation process. So please bear with us." A total of 500 Syrian refugees will be settled in Australia under the government's "strengthened humanitarian program which guarantees more resettlement places for those waiting in desperate circumstances around the world", Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Scott Morrison announced in a statement Thursday. He confirmed that this resettlement will commence in 2013-14. According to Scott Morrison, Australia would join 16 other countries in a resettlement program driven by the United Nations refugee agency mulberry clutch UNHCR. "The Australian government will work with the UNHCR to identify those offered the resettlement places, which will be targeted for highly vulnerable people in urgent need of protection," he said in the statement. "The government's policy of denying permanent visas to those who arrived illegally by boat will enable Australia to continue offering targeted resettlement to those most in need," Morrison added. In addition, Australia will also continue to assist the UNHCR in the internationally cheap michael kors bags coordinated response to the Syrian crisis. According to the statement, Australia has so far provided more than 100 million AU dollars (almost 93.67 million US dollars) in humanitarian assistance to the Syrian crisis, including 45.5 million AU dollars (almost 42.62 million US dollars) to support humanitarian activities in countries neighbouring Syria. "Our funding has supported UNHCR and other agencies to provide shelter, food and clean water to refugees and host communities," Scott Morrison said. According to the figures of the Australian Associated Press ( AAP), Syria's neighbours - Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Iraq - have absorbed the majority of the refugees, but as numbers grow to more than 2 million, the influx has mulberry lily strained resources and caused tensions. Of the 17 countries, including the United States, signed up to the UNHCR program to offer 10,000 a total resettlement places, France has agreed to accept 1,200 Syrian refugees.