Holding of the Japan-U.S. Security Consultative Committee and Other Meetings

28 November 1996

1. The Japan-U.S. Security Consultative Committee meeting will be held from 10 a.m. on December 2 (Mon.) in Tokyo (Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
   
   
2. The meeting will be attended on the Japanese side by Mr. Yukihiko Ikeda, Foreign Minister, Mr. Fumio Kyuma, Director General of the Defense Agency, and others; and on the U.S. side by Mr. William James Perry, Secretary of Defense, Mr. Walter Mondale, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, and others.
   
   
3. At the Meeting, there will be consultations on Japan-U.S. security relations in general including the issues on the U.S. bases in Okinawa, and enhancement of defense cooperation between the two countries.
   
   
4. Before the Committee meets, a meeting for the Special Action Committee on Okinawa (SACO) will be held from 9 a.m. on the same day in Tokyo (Foreign Ministry). Its Japanese partipants include Mr. Masaki Orita, Director-General of the North American Affairs Bureau of the Foreign Ministry, and Mr. Masahiro Akiyama, Director General of the Bureau of Defense Policy, Defense Agency. On the American side, Mr. Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Franklin Kramer, Assistant Secretary of Defense, and others will attend.
   
   
5. The previous meeting of the Security Consultative Committee was held in September this year in Washington D.C.