Meeting between the Japan Coast Guard and the State Oceanic Administration of China

July 20, 2007

The meeting between the Japan Coast Guard and the State Oceanic Administration of China was held on July 20 (Fri) in Tokyo. The meeting was attended on the Japanese side by Ms. Yuri Furusawa, Director, International Affairs and Crisis Management Division, Japan Coast Guard, and Mr. Takeo Akiba, Director, China and Mongolia Division, Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and other officials from the Japan Coast Guard and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and on the Chinese side by Ms. Chen Yue, Deputy Director-General, Department of International Cooperation, State Oceanic Administration, and other officials from the Administration and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The meeting was held based on the consensus reached at the Japan-China Consultations concerning the East China Sea and Other Matters to hold meetings between the Japan Coast Guard and the State Oceanic Administration, as the first step to enhance the two Government’s communication system as a whole prepared for unforeseeable circumstances in the East China Sea, while identifying each Government’s counterparts. At the meeting, mutual understanding was deepened through opinion exchange such as the explanations of each agency’s official duties.

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