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What's New February 2001

February 28

• Press Conference by the Press Secretary 27 February, 2001
  • Statement on an article appearing in the South German Newspaper Magazine (Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazin)
  • Visit to Japan by Admiral William J. Fallon as Special Envoy of the Government of USA
  • The establishment of the Coordination Office for the Ehime Maru Accident

February 27

• Visit to Japan of His Excellency Mr. Leo A. Falcam, President of Micronesia and Mrs. Falcam
• Statement by the Press Secretary on the Situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Japan-Iraq Relations (updated)

February 26

• Cultural Grant Aid to China for the Museum of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
• Significance of Assisting Refugees and Japan's Posture
• Japan-Oman Relations (updated)
• Japan-Bahrain Relations (updated)

February 23

• Press Conference by the Press Secretary 23 February, 2001
  • Introduction
  • Announcement on the upcoming meeting of the Digital Opportunity Taskforce (DOT Force)
• Assistance Package for Earthquake Disaster in India
• Visit to Japan by Mr. Felipe Ramon Perez Roque, Minister of Foreign Relations of Cuba
• Japan Scope "Central Government Reform"
• Japan-Qatar Relations (updated)
• Japan-Yemen Relations (updated)

February 22

• Japan-Afghanistan Relations (updated)
• Japan-Iran Relations (updated)
• 2001 Global Youth Exchange Program

February 20

• Press Conference by the Press Secretary 20 February, 2001
  • Announcement with regard to the salvage of the Ehime Maru
  • Comment on descriptions of the Ehime Maru appearing in the mass media
  • Emergency assistance for blizzard disaster relief in Mongolia
  • Emergency aid for earthquake disaster relief in El Salvador
  • Demands for an apology by the commander of the USS Greeneville
• Statement by the Press Secretary on the Referendum in Bahrain
• Emergency Aid for Blizzard Disaster Relief in Mongolia
• Emergency Aid for Earthquake Disaster Relief in El Salvador
• Japan-Yugoslavia Foreign Minister Meeting (Overview of the Meeting)
• The Visit to Japan of Minister of Foreign Affairs Muhammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa of Bahrain (Overview and Evaluation)
• Letter written in response to the article in Washington Times on Myanmar Issues

February 19

• Visit to Japan of His Excellency Mr. Teburoro Tito, Chairman of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) and President of Kiribati
• Statement by the Press Secretary on the Situation in Southern Serbia
• Statement by the Press Secretary on an Arson Case involving a U.S. Marine in Okinawa
• The International Conference on Dialogue among Asian Civilizations
• Emergency Aid for Earthquake Disaster Relief in El Salvador

February 16

• Press Conference by the Press Secretary 16 February, 2001
  • Introduction
• Visit to Japan of His Excellency Mr. Leo A. Falcam, President of the Federated States of Micronesia and Mrs. Falcam
• List of Senior Officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (updated)
• Statement by Foreign Minister Yohei Kono on an Arson Case by a U.S. Marine in Okinawa

February 15

• The 2001 Global Youth Exchange (GYE) Program - Public Symposium
• The Visit to Japan of President José Eduardo dos Santos of the Republic of Angola (Overview and Evaluation)

February 13

• Press Conference by the Press Secretary 13 February, 2001
  • Visit to Japan by Commissioner for Trade Pascal Lamy of the European Commission
  • Questions on the reaction of the Government of Japan to the Ehime Maru incident
• Visit to Japan of His Excellency Mr. Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium

February 9

• Visit to Japan of Director General Mike Moore of the World Trade Organization (WTO) (Overview and Evaluation)
• World Trade Organization (WTO) Informal Meeting in Frankfurt (Overview and Evaluation)
• Japan-Canada Relations (updated)
• Seminar on Energy Security in Asia -Asia's Energy Security Challenges in the 21st Century- on March 6, 2001 at Tokyo, Japan

February 8

• Attendance of Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori at the Annual Meeting 2001 of the World Economic Forum in Davos (Summary and Evaluation)

February 7

• Summary of the Second IT Policy Dialogue Mission
• Statement by Foreign Minister Yohei Kono on the result of the Special Election for Premiership in Israel
• Emergency Aid (Additional Aid) for the Earthquake Disaster in India
• Emergency Aid for the Earthquake Disaster in Western India - Dispatch of Japan Disaster Relief Team (units of the Self-Defense Forces)
• Press Conference by the Press Secretary 6 February, 2001
  • Announcement on the postponement of the visit to Japan by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee of India
  • Update on emergency assistance to India
  • Announcement on the Middle East Counter-terrorism Conference in Tokyo
  • Upcoming visit to Japan by Prime Minister Nambaryn Enkhbayar of Mongolia

February 6

• Expansion of Issuing Visas for Business People of IT-related Enterprises in India

February 5

• Visit to Japan by Prime Minister Rafic Hariri of Lebanon
• Press Conference by the Press Secretary 2 February, 2001
  • Announcement on additional emergency assistance for the Indian earthquake disaster
  • Announcement on visa issuance for business people of information technology-related enterprises
  • Visit to Japan by Minister of Foreign Affairs Goran Svilanovic of Yugoslavia
  • Announcement on the dispatch of an expert to UNMOVIC
  • Announcement on Kono Initiative on the Dialogue among Civilizations with the World of Islam
• The Visit to the Gulf Countries of Foreign Minister Yohei Kono (Overview and Evaluation)

February 2

• Commission on Human Security: Announcement by Mrs. Sadako Ogata
• Japan's Priority Proposals for Regulatory Reform in the EU [PDF]

February 1

• Visit to Singapore and Cambodia by Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Kiyohiro Araki

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