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Japan-Belarus Relations

May 2011

Basic Data

Diplomatic Relations:

Established in 26 January, 1992

Number of Residents:

Number of Japanese nationals residing in Belarus: 22 (as of October 2007)

Number of Belarussian nationals residing in Japan: 273 (as of December 2006)

Trade with Japan:

Export: 460 millioin yen (metal products, automobiles)

Import: 630 million yen (food products, glass fiber)

VIP Visits

From Japan to Belarus

Year	Name
1996. 6:	Sumio Edamura, Special Assistant to the Minister for Foreign Affairs
2000. 5:	Members of the House of Councilors Toshio Yamauchi and Yoshihiko Yamashita
2000. 7:	Keizai Doyukai (Japan Assiciation of Corporate Executives)
2002. 8:	Kenshirou Matsunami, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affaris

From Belarus to Japan

Year	Name
1998. 2:	President Alexander Lukashenko
1999. 6:	Chief of Administration of the President, H.E. Mr. Myasnikovich

• Statement by the Press Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, on the Conviction of Belarusian Opposition Presidential Candidate Andrei Sannikov (May 2011)
• Statement by the Press Secretary on the situation after the Presidential Election of the Republic of Belarus (December 2010)
• Dispatch of Election Observers to the Presidential Election of the Republic of Belarus (December 2010)
• Assistance by the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security to the project "Human Security for Individuals and Communities in Chernobyl-Affected Areas through Local Information Provision" in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia (November 2008)
• Statement by the Press Secretary on the Parliamentary Elections in the Republic of Belarus (October 2008)
• Dispatch of Election Observer to the Parliamentary Elections of the Republic of Belarus (September 2008)
• Assistance by the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security to 3 projects in the Republic of Liberia, the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of El Salvador (January 2008)
• Statement by the Press Secretary on the Conviction of Former Belarusian Presidential Candidate (July 2006)
• Statement by the Press Secretary on the Presidential Election in the Republic of Belarus (March 2006)
• Dispatch of Election Observers for the Presidential Election in the Republic of Belarus (March 2006)

Press Secretary's Press Conference on Belarus

• Technical Secretariat on Cooperation for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

• Embassy of Japan in Belarus Web Site (Japanese only)