President-Elect Donald Trump will meet Thursday evening with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. It will be Trump’s first in-person meeting with a world leader since the 2016 election, and according to a spokesman for Trump’s transition team, Abe will make the 32nd world leader Trump has spoken with.

“To be clear, he recognizes there’s only one president of the U.S. at any time, so this is a private meeting,” Jason Miller said on a conference call with reporters Thursday. “That’s an important point to make.”

“To be clear, he recognizes there’s only one president of the U.S. at any time, so this is a private meeting. That’s an important point to make.”

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Abe will come to the meeting looking for assurances that America under Trump’s leadership will remain committed to the U.S.-Japan alliance. They also will discuss trade.

Trump suggested on the campaign trail that U.S. allies need to do more to provide for their own defense. According to The New York Times, the Pentagon budget to support the roughly 50,000 U.S. troops based in Okinawa and other places in Japan is about $5.5 billion.

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Trump and Abe could find common ground. The Japanese leader in August requested a 2.3-percent increase in military spending, the fifth consecutive increase after declining defense budgets in the 1990s and 2000s. Abe also has proposed amending the country’s constitution to allow for an expansion of the military.

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For Trump, the meeting offers a chance to calm fears of America’s most important Asian ally.

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Also on Thursday, Trump will continue meeting with potential Cabinet secretaries and other advisers, although Miller did not indicate that any announcements are imminent on that front. Vice President-Elect Mike Pence will meet with Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill.

“The president-elect will be announcing specific Cabinet recommendations, as well as additional key staff members when those decisions have been made,” Miller said, adding that “the focus from this administration will be to put together the absolute best team to help lead this nation forward … There’s not an arbitrary timetable. It’s about getting it right.”

Miller and Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer reiterated the lobbying ban that all transition team members and administration officials will be required to sign. That forbids lobbying for five years after leaving the administration and includes a lifetime ban on representing foreign governments.

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The ban is structured so that current or former lobbyists can still serve in the administration — as long as they immediately cut lobbying ties.

“What’s crucial to understand about this lobbying ban is that instead of looking back, it looks forward,” Spicer said.

Miller said the “top-shelf” people scheduled to meet with Trump Thursday include:

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Republican South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, a onetime Trump adversary.

Rep. Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican who chairs the House Committee on Financial Services.

FedEx CEO Fred Smith.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott.

Retired Gen. Jack Keane, former vice chief of staff of the U.S. Army.

Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell.

Admiral Mike Rogers, commander of the U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency.

“It’s only a person like Donald Trump that can bring this level of qualified and highly caliber type of individuals,” Spicer said. “You think of the type of people that they are, the experience and leadership qualities that they maintain.”