<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-tpp-abe-idUSKBN13G2IK?il=0" target="_blank" class="">http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-tpp-abe-idUSKBN13G2IK?il=0</a></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""><div class="article-info" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"> <span class="timestamp" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); display: inline-block; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.2em; vertical-align: inherit;">Mon Nov 21, 2016 | 10:27pm EST</span></div><h1 class="article-headline" style="margin: 9px 0px 18px; font-size: 4em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-medium, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1em;">Japan PM says TPP trade pact meaningless without U.S.</h1></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""><div id="article-byline" style="margin: 0px 0px 24px 80px; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""><span class="author" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.5em;">By <a href="http://www.reuters.com/journalists/kiyoshi-takenaka" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); cursor: pointer; font-family: knowledge-medium, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" class="">Kiyoshi Takenaka</a></span> <span class="location" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.5em; text-transform: uppercase; margin-left: 3px;"><span class="divider" style="margin-right: 3px;">|</span> BUENOS AIRES</span></div><span id="midArticle_0" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><span class="article-prime" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); padding: 0px;" class="">The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would be meaningless without U.S. participation, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said he would withdraw the United States from the pan-Pacific free trade deal.</p></span><span id="midArticle_1" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;" class="">Abe, who attended a gathering of TPP leaders in Lima on Saturday, said there was no discussion at the meeting that other members should try to put the TPP into effect without the United States, Abe told reporters in Buenos Aires.</p><span id="midArticle_2" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><p style="margin-right: 0px; 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font-size: 10px;"><div style="position: relative; margin-bottom: 0px !important;" class=""><div class="teads-player" id="teads0" style="margin-bottom: 0px !important;"></div></div></div><span id="midArticle_3" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;" class="">Trump released a video on Monday laying out actions he would take on his first day in office on Jan. 20, including withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.</p><span id="midArticle_4" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><span class="first-article-divide article-divide" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"><div class="related-photo landscape" id="articleImage" style="display: inline-block; width: 700px; margin-left: 80px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 24px;"><div class="related-photo-container" style="background-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-align: center; display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 700px; height: 394px;"><img src="http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20161122&t=2&i=1162601369&w=644&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXMPECAK1F2" border="0" alt="Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a joint statement with Argentine President Mauricio Macri at the Casa Rosada Government House, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 21, 2016. REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian" style="border: 0px; width: 700px; height: auto;" class=""></div><div class="group module-meta" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;"><div class="module-caption" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 16px;">Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a joint statement with Argentine President Mauricio Macri at the Casa Rosada Government House, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 21, 2016. <span class="module-credit" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 12px;">REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian</span></div></div></div></span><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;" class="">Trump campaigned for the U.S. presidency on a promise to pull out of the 12-nation trade deal, calling it a job-killing "disaster."</p><span id="midArticle_5" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;" class="">Abe, who met Russian President Vladimir Putin last week to discuss economic cooperation and a decades-old territorial row, stressed at the Buenos Aires news conference his resolve to put an end to the island dispute under his leadership.</p><span id="midArticle_6" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><span class="second-article-divide article-divide" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;" class="">"This is the problem that cannot be solved without the relationship of trust between leaders," Abe said.</p><span id="midArticle_7" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;" class="">"I will be directly communicating with President Putin and make progress one solid step at a time."</p><span id="midArticle_8" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><span class="third-article-divide article-divide" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"><div class="group-one related-content" style="float: left; width: 220px; 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