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Press Conference by Press Secretary

April 1999

April 27

  1. Japan's Contribution to the Kosovo Crisis
  2. Position of the Government of Japan on the tripartite talks on East Timor
  3. Statement of the Japan Investment Council
  4. Official Visit of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi to the United States of America
  5. Legislation on the Japan-US Defense Cooperation Guidelines
  6. Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) funding
  7. Assistance to Kosovo
  8. Aviation Agreement with the State of Israel
  9. Position of the Japanese Government on comments made by newly elected Governor of Tokyo Shintaro Ishihara on the People's Republic of China
  10. Recent trade issues with the United States

April 23

  1. Release of the 1999 Diplomatic Bluebook of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
  2. Meeting of the states parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Antipersonnel Mines and on their Destruction
  3. Summit meeting between Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and President William Jefferson Clinton of the United States of America in Washington, DC
  4. Consideration of the Guidelines for Japan-US Defense Cooperation in the Diet
  5. Release of the 1999 Diplomatic Bluebook of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

April 20

  1. Assistance from Japan for implementing the general election in the Republic of Indonesia
  2. Meetings between Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Amir of the State of Qatar and Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and Minister for Foreign Affairs Masahiko Koumura
  3. Promotion of relations between Japan and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
  4. Persons accompanying Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi on his official state visit to the United States of America
  5. Position of Japan regarding the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) operations in Kosovo
  6. Response of the Government of the People's Republic of China over comments made by Governor Shintaro Ishihara of Tokyo
  7. Draft resolution put forward by the United States of America to the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) on the human rights situation in the People's Republic of China

April 16

  1. Response of the Government of Japan to the release of the 1999 National Trade Estimate (NTE) Report of the United States Trade Representative (USTR)
  2. Visit to Japan by Minister for Foreign Affairs José Miguel Insulza of the Republic of Chile from 22 to 25 April
  3. Visit to Japan by President Andres Pastrana Arango of the Republic of Colombia from 10 to 13 May
  4. Assistance from Japan to Kosovo refugees and displaced persons
  5. Response of the Government of Japan to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military operations
  6. Diplomatic calendar of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and Minister for Foreign Affairs Masahiko Koumura

April 13

  1. Response of the Government of Japan to the missile testing by the Republic of India on 11 April
  2. Visit to Japan by President Hosni Mubarak of the Arab Republic of Egypt
  3. Discussion between Japan and the Republic of India, and Japan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan about security in South Asia
  4. Discussion between Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and President Hosni Mubarak of the Arab Republic of Egypt about security in East Asia
  5. Official visit to the United States of America by Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi
  6. Response of the foreign press to the election of Governor-elect Shintaro Ishihara of Tokyo
  7. Visit to the Russian Federation by former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto

April 9

  1. Visit to Japan of President Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Authority from 7 to 8 April
  2. Visit to the United States of America by Prime Minister Zhu Rongji of the People's Republic of China
  3. Update on incident concerning entry of North Korean vessels into territorial waters of Japan

April 6

  1. Ninth Vice-Ministerial-level consultation on the Japan-US Common Agenda on 8 April
  2. Statement by Minister for Foreign Affairs Masahiko Koumura on the extradition of two suspects in the Lockerbie incident
  3. Assistance from Japan to Kosovo refugees
  4. Visit of President Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Authority to Japan
  5. Support of Japan for the Middle Eastern peace process
  6. Position of Japan concerning the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) campaign in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
  7. Procedure for suspending and lifting United Nations Security Council sanctions against the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

April 2

  1. Assistance from Japan to the Kosovo refugees and displaced persons
  2. Visit to Japan of President Yasser Arafat of the Palestinian Authority from 7 to 8 April
  3. Response of Japan to the situation in Kosovo
  4. Support of Japan for the Middle Eastern peace process
  5. Visit to Japan of Minister of Commerce Osama-bin Jaafer Faqih of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  6. Response of the Government of Japan to initiatives of the Russian Federation regarding Kosovo
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