Press Releases (Statements) Archive
December 2012

Japan-India Foreign Ministers' Telephone Talks (December 28)
Japan-Australia Foreign Ministers’ Telephone Talk (December 27)
Statement by the Press Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, on the Referendum on the New Constitution in Egypt (December 26)
Completion of the activities by the Japan’s Self-Defense Force personnel dispatched to the UNDOF (December 21)
Démarche by Dr. Makio Miyagawa, Director-General, Middle Eastern and African Affairs Bureau, to Mr. Nisim Ben-Shitrit, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Israel to Japan (December 21)
Emergency Assistance to the Republic of Fiji in Response to the Cyclone Damage (December 21)
Adoption of the Resolution on the Situation of Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea at the Plenary Meeting of the UN General Assembly (December 21)
Emergency Assistance to the Independent State of Samoa for Cyclone Disaster (December 20)
Exchange of Notes between the Government of Japan and the Government of the Republic of Haiti concerning Japanese grant of part of the materials and equipment of the Japanese Engineer Group engaged in the United Nations Peacekeeping Operation in the Republic of Haiti (December 19)
Statement by the Press Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, on the decision regarding the construction of housing units for Jewish people in East Jerusalem (December 19)
On the Passing of The Honorable Daniel K. Inouye, United States Senator (December 18)
Statement by the Press Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan on a series of terrorist attacks in Iraq (December 18)
Ceremony Launching the "Green Future Action Corps" (December 17)
Courtesy Call on Mr. Koichiro Gemba, Minister for Foreign Affairs, by Mr. Sergio Diaz-Granados Guida, Minister of Trade, Industry and Tourism of the Republic of Colombia (December 17)
First Round of Negotiations for an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between Japan and Colombia (December 17)
Message of Condolence from Mr. Koichiro Gemba, Minister for Foreign Affairs, for the shooting in Connecticut State, United States (December 15)
Meeting between Mr. Koichiro Gemba, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and H.E. Ms. Delphine BATHO, Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy of the French Republic (December 15)
Dispatch of a Self-Defense Force Instructor to the Cairo Regional Center for Training on Conflict Resolution and Peacekeeping in Africa (CCCPA) (December 14)
Emergency Grant Aid Extended to Palestinians Affected by the Deterioration of the Situation in the Gaza Strip (December 13)
Mr. Chikao Kawai, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Lodges a Protest against Dr. Han Zhiqiang, Acting Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Japan (December 13)
Emergency Assistance to the Republic of Palau for Typhoon Disaster (December 13)
Additional Assistance to the Republic of the Philippines for Typhoon Disaster (December 13)
Statement by the Press Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, on the Arrest of Interim Prime Minister Cheikh Modibo Diarra by the Military in Mali (December 12)
Telephone Talks between Foreign Minister Gemba and Rt Hon Hague, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, on the Launching of a Missile, Which North Korea Calls a "Satellite" (December 12)
Telephone Talks between Foreign Minister Gemba and Mr. Fabius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the French Republic, on the Launching of a Missile, Which North Korea Calls a "Satellite" (December 12)
Japan-ROK Foreign Ministers’ Telephone Talks (December 12)
Telephone Talks between Mr. Kenichiro Sasae, Japanese Ambassador to the United States, and Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, US Department of State, on the Launch of a Missile by North Korea (December 12)
Telephone Talks between Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Naoki Kazama and Acting U.S. Ambassador to Japan Mr. Kurt Tong on the Launching of a Missile by North Korea (December 12)
Statement by the Press Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, on the Presidential Election in Ghana (December 11)
H.E. Motohide Yoshikawa, Ambassador, Permanent Delegation of Japan to the OECD, reappointed as Chair of the OECD Executive Committee (December 11)
Establishment of the Emergency Headquarters within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in relation to the Launching of a Missile by North Korea Purported to be "Satellite" (December 9)
Emergency Assistance to the Republic of the Philippines for Typhoon Disaster (December 8)
Japan-U.S.-ROK Trilateral Working-level Meeting on North Korean Issues and other talks (Overview) (December 5)
Typhoon Damage in Mindanao, the Philippines (Messages of Sympathies from Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and Minister for Foreign Affairs Koichiro Gemba) (December 5)
Démarche by Dr. Makio Miyagawa, Director-General, Middle Eastern and African Affairs Bureau, to Mr. Nisim Ben-Shitrit, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Israel to Japan (December 4)
Adoption of the Draft Resolutions on Nuclear Disarmament and Small Arms Submitted by Japan at the Plenary Session of the United Nations General Assembly (December 4)
Statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the plan for the construction of housing units for Jewish people in East Jerusalem and the West Bank (December 3)