Brussels, 10/12/2001 (Agence Europe) - The 10th Summit between the Union and Japan, which took place on Saturday in Brussels, ended with significant results, including the send off given by Presidents Prodi and Verhofstadt, for the Europeans, and Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for the Japanese, to a wide ranging action plan for a new decade of Euro-Japanese cooperation. This 25 pages text outlines the guidelines to follow in order to enhance and widen ties, until now mainly focused on the economic sphere, by placing a new emphasis on political dialogue and security. Around twenty fields are now targeted by the partners, who set themselves four main aims: - promote peace and security; - enhance the economic and commercial partnership, - bring the peoples and cultures closer together. Another document concerns the collective effort against terrorism and against the spread of materials and technologies necessary for the manufacturing of nuclear, chemical or biological weapon, as well as "active measures" to reduce and control the market and trafficking of illegal drugs. The same statement also seals the promise made by the Europeans and Japanese to work together for the stabilisation and reconstruction of Afghanistan, not forgetting Pakistan and the other neighbouring countries to which they undertake to provide "assistance", though unspecified. Joint work is foreseen to ensure the success of a preparatory meeting that will take place in Brussels next 21 December and the Tokyo Ministerial Conference in January 2002. The same lunch, included an overview of the situation in the Middle East: an opportunity for Javier Solana to signal (via obviously organised "leaks") that the Union is for the first time considering a "post-Arafat".