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Press Releases (Statements) Archive

April 1997

• Statement by Foreign Minister Yukihiko Ikeda on the Entry into Force of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction (April 29)
• Statement by the Press Secretary on the Establishment of the Government of Unity and National Reconciliation of Angola (April 14)
• Statement by the Press Secretary on the Agreement Reached between Sri Lankan President Kumaratunga and the Opposition Party Leader Mr. Wickremasinghe Concerning the Ethnic Problem (April 9)
• Statement by Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto on the Visits to Brazil and Argentina by Their Majesties The Emperor and Empress of Japan (April 8)

• Visit to Japan by Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Mrs. Annan (April 30)
• State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Masahiko Koumura to Visit Laos, Viet Nam and Cambodia and to Attend ESCAP General Meeting in Thailand (April 22)
• Dispatch of Japanese Election Observer to the Elections in Eastern Slavonia, Croatia (April 15)
• Visit to Japan by Mr. Paavo Tapio Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland (April 14)
• Visit to Japan by Mr. Roberto Robaina Gonzalez, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba (April 14)
• Visit to Japan by Mr. Paul Kagame, Vice-President of the Republic of Rwanda (April 8)
• Their Majesties The Emperor and Empress of Japan to Visit the Federative Republic of Brazil and the Argentine Republic (April 8)

• Statement by State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Masahiko Koumura and Head of the Japanese Delegation to the 53rd Session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) (April 28, 1997)