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Press Conference by Press Secretary

April 1998

24 April

  1. Announcement by the Cabinet of Economic Stimulus Package
  2. Release of the 1998 Diplomatic Bluebook of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
  3. Fisheries negotiations between the Republic of Korea and Japan
  4. Schedule of Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto
  5. Release of United States Congressional Report
  6. Security exchanges between Japan and the Russian Federation
  7. Proposal by Prime Minister Hashimoto to President Yeltsin

21 April

  1. Friends of Cambodia meeting in Bangkok
  2. Paper on Asian financial crises and Japan's response
  3. Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's Northern Territories proposal
  4. Visit by State Secretary Masahiko Koumura to the Islamic Republic of Iran
  5. Visit of Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan to the United Kingdom
  6. Economic stimulus package
  7. Announcement by the Republic of Korea
  8. Further questions on Their Majesties' visit to the United Kingdom

17 April

  1. Itinerary of the visit by Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan to the Republic of Portugal, the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Denmark
  2. Visit by State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Masahiko Koumura to the Islamic Republic of Iran
  3. Grant assistance for the election in the Kingdom of Cambodia in aid of democratization
  4. Activities of President Boris Yeltsin of the Russian Federation and Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto in Kawana
  5. Japan-Russian relations since the Krasnoyarsk meeting between Prime Minister Hashimoto and President Yeltsin
  6. Personal contact between Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and President Boris Yeltsin
  7. Informality of discussions between Prime Minister Hashimoto and President Yeltsin in Kawana
  8. Signing of a peace treaty between Russian and Japan by the year 2000
  9. Areas of Japan-Russia cooperation
  10. Tokyo Declaration between Japan and Russia
  11. The visit by Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan to the United Kingdom
  12. Encounters between Their Majesties and the people of the United Kingdom
  13. Creation of itinerary for Their Majesties while in the United Kingdom
  14. Itinerary of Their Majesties while near London

14 April

  1. Attendance by State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Masahiko Koumura at the ASEAN Troika and Friends of Cambodia Meeting
  2. Attendance by State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Masahiko Koumura at the 54th General Meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
  3. Status of visit of President Boris Yeltsin of the Russian Federation to Japan
  4. Possibility of visit by Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto to the Russian Federation
  5. Results of meeting between State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Masahiko Koumura and Executive Director Catherine Bertini of the World Food Programme
  6. Public debate of government policy
  7. Expectations of the Government of Russia and the Government of Japan to the visit of President Boris Yeltsin of the Russian Federation to Japan

10 April

  1. Upcoming visit to Japan by Secretary of State Madeline Albright of the United States of America
  2. Statement by Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto on the occasion of the approval of the fiscal year 1998 budget
  3. Visit to Japan by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki of the Republic of South Africa
  4. Proposed discussions with Secretary of State Madeline Albright of the United States of America
  5. Economic development of the Northern Territories
  6. Proposed non-visa exchanges with Sakhalin
  7. Ministerial participation in the Japan-South Africa Partnership Forum
  8. Joint Russia-Japan development projects
  9. Non-visa trips between Japan and the Northern Territories
  10. Acceptance of Taiwanese passports
  11. Reported missile tests by Pakistan

7 April

  1. Results of ASEM II Meeting in London attended by Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto
  2. Highlights of the visit of Minister for Foreign Affairs Keizo Obuchi to Bosnia and Herzegovina
  3. Ratification by the United Kingdom and the French Republic of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
  4. Upcoming visit to Japan by President Boris Yeltsin of the Russian Federation
  5. Seminars on tourism promotion and desalination technology and water resources management in support of the Middle East peace process
  6. Missile testing by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

3 April

  1. Decision by the Government of the State of Israel to accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 425
  2. Readouts from the bilateral meetings at the London ASEM Leaders' Meeting
    1. Meeting between Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and President Kim Dae Jung of the Republic of Korea
    2. Meeting between Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and Prime Minister Zhu Rhongi of the People's Republic of China
    3. Meeting between Minister for Foreign Affairs Keizo Obuchi and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Alatas of the Republic of Indonesia
  3. Upcoming visit to Japan by President Boris Yeltsin of the Russian Federation
  4. Bilateral meetings at the upcoming G-8 Summit Meeting
  5. Application for a Japanese visa by the Dalai Lama
  6. Construction of a sea-based heliport in Japan
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