Press Conference by Press Secretary

June 1997

29 June

  1. Opening Remarks
    1. Hong Kong handover, Japan-Hong Kong relations and Japan-People's Republic of China relations
    2. Exchange of views between Minister for Foreign Affairs Yukihiko Ikeda and Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Downer of the Commonwealth of Australia
  2. Situation in Cambodia
  3. Japan's attendance at the swearing-in of the Provisional Legislature
  4. United Kingdom-People's Republic of China Joint Declaration
  5. Senkaku Islands issue
  6. Agenda for Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto
  7. People's Liberation Army in Hong Kong
  8. Agenda and topics for discussion for Minister for Foreign Affairs Yukihiko Ikeda's bilateral discussions
  9. Statistics on Japanese investment in Hong Kong
  10. Taiwanese military exercises

27 June

  1. Visit of Minister for Foreign Affairs Yukihiko Ikeda to Hong Kong
  2. Situation in North Korea
  3. Reversion of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China
  4. Details of the handover ceremonies of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China
  5. Talks between Japan and North Korea
  6. Food aid to North Korea
  7. Upcoming visit of Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto to the People's Republic of China
  8. Visits of human rights activists to Japan
  9. Discussions regarding the situation in North Korea
  10. Japan-U.S. security alliance
  11. United Nations humanitarian aid to North Korea

17 June

  1. Press conference announcements
    1. Establishment of the Japan-ASEAN Network for Counterterrorism
    2. Ministerial Meeting on the environment
    3. Japan Insight
  2. Hong Kong reversion ceremony
  3. Counterterrorism
  4. Agenda for the G-7 Summit
  5. Surplus trade issue
  6. Senkaku Islands issue

13 June

  1. Introduction to the press conference
  2. Senkaku Islands issue
  3. Interim Report on the Review of the Japan-U.S. Guidelines for Defense Cooperation
  4. Deserted chemical weapons in the People's Republic of China
  5. Geographical areas included in the Japan-U.S. Guidelines for Defense Cooperation

10 June

  1. Interim Report on the Review of the Japan-U.S. Guidelines for Defense Cooperation
  2. Briefing in Beijing on the Interim Report on the Review of the Japan-U.S. Guidelines for Defense Cooperation
  3. Theater Missile Defense (TMD)

6 June

  1. Press conference announcements
    1. New Cabinet in the French Republic
    2. Organization of African Unity (OAU) Summit
  2. Japanese Official Development Assistance (ODA)
  3. Japanese economy
  4. Food aid to North Korea
  5. Political situation in North Korea
  6. Japan-People's Republic of China relations
  7. Japan-U.S. security alliance

3 June

  1. Subcommittee for Japan-U.S. Defense Cooperation
  2. Takeshima Island issue
  3. Japanese wives in North Korea
  4. Accession of the Russian Federation to the World Trade Organization (WTO)
  5. Framework for the Denver Summit
  6. Elections in the French Republic
  7. Entrance of the North Korean ship Mankyongbong into Port of Yokohama

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