Press Conference by Press Secretary

October 1997

28 October

  1. U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) sanction against Japanese carriers
  2. Visit to Japan of Japanese wives in North Korea
  3. Upcoming Japan-Russian Federation Summit Meeting
  4. Japan-Russian Federation relations

24 October

  1. Press Conference Announcements
    1. Municipal elections in the Democratic and People's Republic of Algeria
    2. Japan-People's Republic of China human rights dialogue
    3. Third Conference of the Parties (COP3) to the United Nations Framework on Climatic Change
  2. COP3 proposals for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions
  3. Japan-People's Republic of China relations
  4. Northern Territories issue
  5. Visit to Japan of Japanese wives in North Korea

21 October

  1. Press conference announcements
    1. Third Asia-Pacific Journalist's Meeting
    2. Harbor services in Japan's ports
    3. Upcoming meeting of the Ad Hoc Group on the Berlin Mandate in Bonn
  2. Japan-Russian Federation relations
  3. Possible visit to Japan by Minister of Foreign Affairs Evgenii Maksimovich Primakov of the Russian Federation
  4. Visit to Japan by Japanese wives in North Korea
  5. Dispatch of emergency assistance teams

17 October

  1. Press conference announcements
    1. Recommendation for Director-General Hiroshi Oki of the Environment Agency to Chair the Third Conference of the Parties (COP3) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Kyoto
    2. Ministerial meeting on the environment
  2. Visit to Japan by Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
  3. Japan-U.S. shipping industry dispute
  4. Reduction of greenhouse gas emission

14 October

  1. Japan's proposal for QELROs
  2. Food aid to North Korea
  3. Talks on normalization of relations between Japan and North Korea
  4. Visit to Japan by Japanese wives in North Korea
  5. Greenhouse gas emissions

7 October

  1. Japan-Mercosur dialogue
  2. Saudi Arabia
  3. Visit to Tokyo by Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh of the Kingdom of Thailand
  4. Shipments of nuclear waste
  5. Japan-South Pacific Forum dialogue
  6. Food aid to North Korea
  7. Visit to Japan by Japanese wives in North Korea
  8. Japan-Caribbean trade
  9. Economic assistance to the Northern Territories

3 October

  1. Introduction to the Press Conference
  2. Environment
  3. Reports of an airplane flying over Japan's territorial island called Rishiri Island
  4. Mercado Comun del Sur (Mercosur)
  5. Japanese wives in North Korea
  6. Japanese food aid to North Korea
  7. Preliminary talks on normalization of diplomatic relations with North Korea
  8. Japan-Russian Federation relations
  9. Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 3)

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