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Press Releases (Visits and Events)
September 2008

Visits

• Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan to Attend the 63rd Session of the General Assembly of UN (25th-28th)
• Mr. Yoshiro Mori, Special Envoy of the Government of Japan (former Prime Minister), to Attend High-level Meeting on Africa’s Development Needs (21st - 24th)
• Attendance of Ms. Kawaguchi, Special Envoy of the Government of Japan, to the Fourth Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Ministerial Meeting and the Side-event on Water and Sanitation (23rd-25th)
• Visit to the Central and Western African Region by Mr. Yasutoshi Nishimura, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs (Joint Mission for Promoting Trade and Investment to Central and Western Africa) (13th - 20th)
• Visit to Japan by Hon. Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (15th - 18th)
• Visit to the United Kingdom by Mr. Shintaro Ito, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs (15th -18th)
• Mr. Yoshiro Mori, former Prime Minister, to visit the Federated States of Micronesia as Ambassador on Special Mission (14th - 18th)
• Visit to Japan by young officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China (10th - 14th)
• Visit to the East African Region by Mr. Nobuhide Minorikawa, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs (Joint Mission for Promoting Trade and Investment to East Africa) (11th - 18th)
• Postponement of the Visit to Japan by His Excellency Mr. Samak Sundaravej, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand (September 2nd - 4th)
• Dispatch of Ambassador on Special Mission of Japan to Attend the State Funeral of Mr. Levy Mwanawasa, President of the Republic of Zambia (September 1st - 3rd)
• Mr. Nobuhide Minorikawa, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, to visit Ghana (1st - 4th September)
• Visit to Japan of His Excellency Mr. Samak Sundaravej, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand (2nd September - 4th September)

Events

• The 4th Japan-Finland Joint Committee on Cooperation in Science and Technology (29th)
• Mr. Masahiko Koumura, Minister for Foreign Affairs, to Attend the Festival on the Eve of “Vietnam Festival 2008,” a Commemorative Program to Celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relationship between Japan and Viet Nam, and Mr. Shintaro Ito, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, to the Opening Ceremony of the “Vietnam Festival 2008” (19th - 21st)
• The Eighth Round of Negotiations on the Japan-Switzerland Economic Partnership Agreement (22nd - 24th)
• The 9th Round of Negotiations on the Japan-India Economic Partnership Agreement (8th - 12th)
• Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Maritime Interdiction Exercise “Maru” hosted by New Zealand (12th - 19th)