Press Conference by Press Secretary

February 2003

28 February

  1. Exchanges of Notes concerning the Contribution of Supplies and Services of the Armed Forces or Other Similar Entities of France, Germany and New Zealand
  2. Emergency Assistance for Earthquake Disaster in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China
  3. Visit to Japan by President of the Council of State Fidel Castro of the Republic of Cuba
  4. Visit to Japan by President of the 57th General Assembly Jan Kavan of the United Nations
  5. Questions concerning Special Envoys of the Prime Minister on the Iraq Issue
  6. Questions concerning situation in the Republic of Iraq
  7. Questions concerning Japan's relations with the People's Republic of China
  8. Questions concerning the promotion of tourism in Japan
  9. Questions concerning situation in North Korea
  10. Questions concerning Japan's asylum policy
  11. Questions concerning Yasukuni Shrine
  12. Questions concerning Senkaku Islands
  13. Questions concerning textbook selection

21 February

  1. Visit to Japan by President Hamid Karzai of the Transitional Administration of Afghanistan
  2. Visit to Japan by Secretary of State Colin Powell of the United States of America
  3. Question concerning Secretary of State Powell's visit to Japan
  4. Question concerning possible military action in Iraq
  5. Questions concerning North Korean defectors in the People's Republic of China

18 February

  1. Visit by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to the Republic of Korea
  2. Meeting between Minister for Foreign Affairs Yoriko Kawaguchi and Deputy Prime Minister Ertugrul Yalcinbayir of the Republic of Turkey
  3. World Trade Organization (WTO) Informal Ministerial Meeting in Tokyo
  4. Question concerning Turkish Year in Japan
  5. Question concerning the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)
  6. Question concerning situation of Japanese nationals in the Republic of Iraq

14 February

  1. World Trade Organization Informal Ministerial Meeting to be held in Tokyo
  2. Commission on Human Security to adopt its Final Report
  3. Travel advisory for Japanese nationals in Baghdad, Republic of Iraq
  4. Question regarding Japan's stance on the situation in the Republic of Iraq
  5. Questions concerning the World Trade Organization Informal Ministerial Meeting
  6. Question concerning the Japanese Government's position on a Japanese national defecting from North Korea
  7. Question concerning possible visits by Japanese Government officials to Taiwan
  8. Questions concerning the travel advisory for Japanese nationals in Baghdad
  9. Question concerning oil supply and the situation in Iraq
  10. Question concerning warnings against terrorism
  11. Question concerning the meeting between Senior Vice Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and Minister of Planning Bassem I. Awadallah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
  12. Question concerning statement by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld of the United States

7 February

  1. Emergency Assistance for Flood Disaster in the Republic of Madagascar
  2. Visit to Japan by Mr. Chyun Dai Chul, Special Envoy of President-elect Roh Moo Hyun of the Republic of Korea
  3. Visit to Japan by Secretary-General Javier Solana of the Council of the European Union
  4. Strategic dialogue between Japan and the United States of America
  5. Visit to Japan by President Hamid Karzai of the Transnational Administration of Afghanistan
  6. Question concerning statement by North Korea
  7. Question concerning visit to the United States by Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Yukio Takeuchi

4 February

  1. Question concerning the reinforcement of United States Armed Forces in the Western Pacific
  2. Question concerning an article in a Japanese monthly magazine by Minister for Foreign Affairs Yoriko Kawaguchi
  3. Question concerning the administration of smallpox vaccine to the Self-Defense Forces of Japan
  4. Question concerning the meeting with the Middle East Research Institute of Japan
  5. Questions concerning the Government of Japan's position on the situation in the Republic of Iraq

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