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Press Conference by Press Secretary

January 2003

31 January

  1. Joint Invitation Program for Israeli and Palestinian Young Leaders
  2. United States of America to re-join the ITER project
  3. Question concerning the joint invitation program of young Israelis and Palestinians
  4. Question concerning visit to Europe by Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshimitsu Motegi
  5. Question concerning the situation in Iraq
  6. Question concerning statement by Director General Osamu Akiyama of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau

28 January

  1. Reports on the inspections in the Republic of Iraq by United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
  2. Reaction to the incursion into Gaza
  3. World Trade Organization (WTO) Tokyo Informal Ministerial Meeting
  4. Assistance for Malaria Control in Nigeria by the Trust Fund for Human Security
  5. Questions concerning reaction to the report by the weapons inspection teams in Iraq
  6. Questions concerning potential impact of possible attack on Iraq
  7. Question concerning North Korean refugees
  8. Question concerning communications with North Korea

24 January

  1. Change in the visit to Japan by President Ricardo Lagos Escobar of the Republic of Chile
  2. Meeting between Minister for Foreign Affairs Yoriko Kawaguchi and Undersecretary of State John Bolton of the United States of America
  3. Questions concerning meeting between Minister for Foreign Affairs Kawaguchi and Undersecretary of State Bolton
  4. Question concerning Minister for Foreign Affairs Kawaguchi's statement at the Diet
  5. Question concerning Japan's security alertness

21 January

  1. Minister for Foreign Affairs Yoriko Kawaguchi to visit Okinawa Island
  2. Question concerning apology to be published by Asahi Shimbun
  3. Question concerning situation in the Republic of Iraq
  4. Question concerning visit to Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees of the United Nations
  5. Question concerning Minister for Foreign Affairs Kawaguchi's visit to Okinawa
  6. Questions concerning meeting between special envoy Alexander Losyukov of the Russian Federation and General Secretary Kim Jong Il of North Korea

17 January

  1. Minister for Foreign Affairs Yoriko Kawaguchi's visits to the French Republic and the Republic of Korea
  2. Meeting between Minister for Foreign Affairs Kawaguchi and Ambassador Howard Baker of the United States of America
  3. Question concerning the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO)
  4. Question concerning upcoming visit to Japan by Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly of the United States
  5. Question concerning situation regarding North Korea
  6. Question concerning UN weapons inspections in the Republic of Iraq
  7. Question concerning changes to entry formalities to the United States

14 January

  1. Visit by Mr. Yasushi Akashi, Representative of the Government of Japan to the Republic of India and the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
  2. Visit by Minister for Foreign Affairs Yoriko Kawaguchi to the Republic of France and the Republic of Korea
  3. Visit by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to the Russian Federation
  4. Questions concerning North Korea's withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
  5. Questions concerning Prime Minister Koizumi's visit to Yasukuni Shrine
  6. Question concerning past repatriation of people from Japan to North Korea
  7. Question concerning visa-wide area networks

10 January

  1. Japan's reaction to North Korea's declaration to pull out of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
  2. Upcoming visit to Japan by President Ricardo Lagos Escobar of the Republic of Chile
  3. Upcoming visit to Japan by Prime Minister David Oddsson of the Republic of Iceland
  4. Upcoming visit by Minister for Foreign Affairs Yoriko Kawaguchi to France
  5. Upcoming visit by Minister for Foreign Affairs Yoriko Kawaguchi to the Republic of Korea
  6. Opening of Consulate General's branch office in Lyon, Republic of France
  7. Questions concerning North Korea's declaration on the Non-Proliferation Treaty
  8. Questions concerning situation in the Republic of Iraq
  9. Question concerning statement by the Press Secretary/Director-General for Press and Public Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on a ballistic missile launch test by India

7 January

  1. Statement by the Press Secretary/Director-General for Press and Public Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Resolution concerning North Korea at the January Meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors
  2. Statement by the Press Secretary/Director-General for Press and Public Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Suicide Bombings in Israel
  3. Statements on the Assistance for the National Program for the Control and Prevention of STI/HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Cuba and Terrorist Incident in the Republic of Chechnya
  4. Visit by Minister for Foreign Affairs Yoriko Kawaguchi to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and the Republic of India
  5. Upcoming visit to the Russian Federation by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
  6. Question concerning upcoming visit to the Russian Federation by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
  7. Question concerning Senkaku Islands
  8. Question concerning reaction to the IAEA Board of Governors' resolution
  9. Follow-up question concerning Senkaku Islands
  10. Question concerning Japan's policy on situation in Iraq
  11. Question concerning family member of abductee
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