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Press Conference by Press Secretary

June 1996

28 June

  1. Announcements from the Lyon G-7 Summit Meeting
    1. Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's meeting with President William Clinton of the United States
    2. Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's meetings with leaders at the Lyon G-7 Summit
  2. Japan and North Korea
  3. Bilateral meeting between Prime Minister Hashimoto and President William Clinton of the United States
  4. Sumitomo Corporation investigation
  5. Japan-United States discussions on semiconductors and insurance
  6. Civil aviation talks

25 June

  1. Opening Remark
  2. Visit to Japan by a North Korean Disarmament and Peace Institute delegation
  3. Japan and North Korea
  4. Issues to be discussed at the upcoming G-7 Summit in Lyon
  5. People's Republic of China and the World Trade Organization (WTO)
  6. Outcome of talks at the meeting on Cheju Island between Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and President Kim Young Sam of the Republic of Korea
  7. Japan and Republic of Korea visa requirements
  8. Details of a possible follow-up meeting between Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and President Kim Young Sam of the Republic of Korea

21 June

  1. Introduction to the Press Conference and Announcements to the Press
    1. Visit to Japan by President Zine ElAbidine Ben Ali of the Republic of Tunisia
    2. The Lyon Summit home page
  2. Possible views at the Lyon G-7 Summit on the Four-Party Conference proposed by the United States and the Republic of Korea
  3. Possible topics of discussion at the Cheju Summit
  4. Reshuffle of three aides in the Government of the Russian Federation
  5. Japan-Russian Federation territorial issue
  6. Japan-United States trade relations
  7. Japan's financial contribution to the Common Agenda
  8. Aid to the Republic of Yakutiya
  9. The Senkaku Islands
  10. Takeshima Island
  11. Cuts in funding for the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) by the United States of America
  12. Visit of Minister for Foreign Affairs Yukihiko Ikeda to Ukraine

18 June

  1. Introduction to the Press Conference and announcements to the Press
    1. Bilateral relations between the United States of America and the People's Republic of China
    2. Presidential election in the Russian Federation
  2. Possible topics of discussion during the visit to the Republic of Korea by Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto
  3. Possible topics of discussion at the G-7 Summit in Lyon
  4. Purpose of the visit to the Republic of Korea by Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto
  5. Fundamental position of Japan on the Comfort Women issue
  6. Conditions in North Korea and developments in the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO)
  7. Question of Russian Federation participation in G-7 economic meetings
  8. Possibility of participation by the People's Republic of China in the World Trade Organization (WTO)
  9. Japan-Republic of Korea relations
  10. Alleged North Korean possession of four nuclear warheads
  11. Possibility of a visit to Latin America by Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto

14 June

  1. Japanese response to the United Nations appeal for emergency humanitarian aid to North Korea
  2. Upcoming elections in the Russian Federation
  3. The visit of Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto to the Republic of Korea
  4. Food shortages in North Korea

11 June

  1. Introduction to the Press Conference and announcements to the Press
    1. The arrest of Japanese Red Army member Kazue Yoshimura
    2. Japan-Republic of India relations
    3. The situation in the Union of Myanmar
  2. Japan-U.S. security cooperation
  3. Humanitarian assistance to North Korea
  4. Alleged North Korean missile capability
  5. United Nations humanitarian assistance to North Korea and the proposed four-party conference
  6. North Korean Rodong missile development and reported possession of nuclear warheads
  7. Possibility of North Korean matters being discussed at the Lyon G-7 Summit
  8. Reported misuse of disaster insurance funds by North Korea
  9. Okinawa elections and the realignment, consolidation and reduction of United States bases on Okinawa
  10. Japanese policy regarding the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) and the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Myanmar
  11. Statement by Minister for Foreign Affairs Yukihiko Ikeda on the arrest of Japanese Red Army member Kazue Yoshimura
  12. Distribution channels for humanitarian assistance to North Korea

7 June

  1. Visit to Japan by Minister for Foreign Affairs John Gosse Downer of Australia
  2. United Nations appeal for emergency humanitarian assistance for North Korea
  3. The policy of Japan regarding Comfort Women
  4. Possible contribution by Japan to United Nations emergency humanitarian assistance for North Korea
  5. Japan-Republic of Korea relations
  6. The reported death of Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot

4 June

  1. Humanitarian assistance for the Russian Far East
  2. Visit to Japan by State Council Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office Lu Ping of the People's Republic of China
  3. Background on Humanitarian assistance by Japan for the Russian Far East
  4. Visit to Japan by Minister for Foreign Affairs John Gosse Downer of Australia
  5. The Middle East peace process and a change in government in the State of Israel
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