Press Conference by Press Secretary

May 1995

30 May

  1. Emergency humanitarian assistance for those afflicted by the earthquake on Sakhalin Island in the Russian Federation
  2. Statement by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Yohei Kono on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  3. Reports of alleged spying on an embassy
  4. Possible provision of rice for North Korea
  5. Timing of trade-related consultations between Japan and the United States of America
  6. Status of the second installment of yen credit to the Islamic Republic of Iran
  7. Visit to Japan of Member of the Commission of the European Communities Edith Cresson
  8. Ongoing technical negotiations between the United States of America and North Korea on the Agreed Framework
  9. Japan's Official Development Assistance (ODA)

26 May

  1. Reported request by North Korea for rice aid from Japan
  2. Possible topics of discussion between Japan and the Russian Federation on the occasion of the upcoming G-7 Summit in Halifax
  3. Press reports
  4. Summit Meeting between Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama and Prime Minister Paul Keating of Australia

23 May

  1. Third Meeting of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Rio Group Troika Countries and Japan
  2. Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO)
  3. Japan's diplomatic action following an underground nuclear test by the People's Republic of China
  4. Japan-United States of America relations and consultations at the World Trade Organization (WTO)

12 May

  1. Statement by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Yohei Kono on the decision for the indefinite extension of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)
  2. Dispatch of Japanese election observers to the Republic of Haiti
  3. Meeting between Ambassador to Japan Walter Mondale of the United States of America and Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Kunihiko Saito regarding recent developments in Japan- United States trade relations
  4. Issues related to the Islamic Republic of Iran
  5. Situation on the Korean Peninsula
  6. Tokyo City Expo '96
  7. Consideration of a dispatch of Japanese peace-keeping personnel to the Golan Heights
  8. Nerve gas incident on the Tokyo subway system

9 May

  1. Election of Monsieur Jacques Chirac to the Presidency of the French Republic
  2. Situation on the Korean Peninsula and tripartite consultations between Japan, the United States of America and the Republic of Korea
  3. Request by the Government of the United States of America for Japan's cooperation regarding United States' economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran
  4. Japan's policy regarding sanctions in general
  5. Various issues related to economic sanctions by the United States of America against the Islamic Republic of Iran
  6. Breakdown of recent Japan-United States of America negotiations on automobiles and auto parts
  7. Recent visit by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Yohei Kono to the Republic of Croatia and the situation in the former Yugoslavia

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