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Press Conference by Press Secretary

June 1999

29 June

1. Announcement on a meeting to be held between the Friends of the Secretary-General for Kosovo
2. Dispatch of civilian police officers to the United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNAMET)
3. Activities in which the Friends of the Secretary-General for Kosovo will participate
4. Reaction of other countries to the Time magazine nomination by Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi
5. Relations between Japan and the Commonwealth of Australia with the impending visit to Japan of the Prime Minister of Australia
6. Japan's stance on the current situation in Kashmir involving the Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
7. Ongoing discussions concerning the dispatch of a Japanese civilian team to Kosovo

25 June

1. Response of the Government of Japan to heightened tensions in Southern Lebanon
2. Plenary Meeting of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering
3. Hostilities between Hezbollah and the Israeli military
4. Visit of Minister for Foreign Affairs Masahiko Koumura to the Middle Eastern region
5. Hostilities between the Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan over Kashmir
6. Visit of President Boris Yeltsin of the Russian Federation to Japan
7. Results of the Group of Eight (G8) Summit in Cologne
8. Situation in the Republic of Iraq

22 June

1. G8 Summit in Cologne
2. EU-Japan Mutual Recognition Agreement
3. Implementation of peace in Kosovo
4. G8 Summit Statement on Kashmir
5. Comment on the Asahi Shimbun report on a Chinese research ship in Japanese waters

18 June

1. Grant Aid to Albania
2. Dispatch of a Political Affairs Officer to the United Nations Special Mission to Afghanistan (UNSMA)
3. Dispatch of a Political Affairs Officer to the United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNAMET)
4. G8 Summit in Cologne

15 June

1. Visit to Japan of Prime Minister John Howard of Australia
2. Dispatch of civilian police officers to East Timor
3. Naval standoff between the Republic of Korea and North Korea
4. Hostilities between the Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan over Kashmir
5. Prospect of participation of Japan in an international peacekeeping presence in Kosovo

11 June

1. Statement by Minister for Foreign Affairs Masahiko Koumura on the situation in Kosovo
2. Preliminary data on total Official Development Assistance (ODA) of Japan for 1998
3. Statement of the Government of Japan on the general elections in the Republic of Indonesia
4. Policy of the Government of Japan on levels of Official Development Assistance (ODA) in the future
5. Status of yen loans from Japan to the Islamic Republic of Iran
6. Role of Japan in the implementation of the peace plan in Kosovo
7. Support of Japan for United Nations reforms
8. Response of the Government of Japan to reports on the arrest of 13 Iranian Jews in the Islamic Republic of Iran
9. Agenda items at the Group of Eight (G8) Summit Meeting in Cologne
10. Japan's 21st century plan for the oil producing countries in the Middle East

8 June

1. Visit to Japan by President Henri Konan Bedie of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire to Japan from 28 June to 2 July
2. Agenda for the Foreign Ministers' Meeting at the Cologne Group of Eight Summit
3. Prospect of participation of Japan in an international peacekeeping presence in Kosovo
4. Hostilities between the Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan over Kashmir
5. Support of the Government of Japan for economic and political stability in the Republic of Indonesia
6. Meeting between Minister for Foreign Affairs Masahiko Koumura and Minister of Finance Michel Marto of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

4 June

1. Support of Japan for general election in the Republic of South Africa
2. Support of Japan for peace plan for Kosovo region

1 June

1. Visit to the Russian Federation by Minister for Foreign Affairs Masahiko Koumura
2. Dispatch of Japanese election observers to the Republic of Indonesia
3. Grant assistance for the peaceful solution of the East Timor issue
4. Former inhabitants of the Northern Territories
5. Negotiation on the peace treaty between Japan and the Russian Federation
6. Hostilities between the Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan over Kashmir
7. Agenda of Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi at the 1999 Group of Eight (G8) Summit in Cologne
8. Reports of possible visit by Minister for Foreign Affairs Masahiko Koumura to the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
9. Visit to the United States of America by Director-General Kihachiro Amae of the Middle Eastern and African Affairs Bureau
10. Further explanation to certain Asian nations on the passage by the Japanese Diet of the bills related to the Guidelines for Japan-US Defense Cooperation