Press Conference by Foreign Minister Archives March 2024

Press Conference by Foreign Minister KAMIKAWA Yoko (March 29, 2024, 12:27 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • Digitalization of APEC Business Travel Card (ABTC)
• Rejection of the Draft United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution on the Mandate of the Panel of Experts for the UNSC 1718 Sanctions Committee
• Outlook on Resumption of Funding to UNRWA
• ICJ’s Order on Provisional Measures against Israel
• Complementarity between the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and NPT
• Similarity between the Situation in the Gaza Strip and the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
• Complementarity between the TPNW and NPT

Press Conference by Foreign Minister KAMIKAWA Yoko (March 26, 2024, 11:45 a.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • Exchange of Views between Foreign Minister Kamikawa and the Female Ambassadors in Tokyo
• Terrorist Attack in Russia
• Statement by Vice Department Director Kim Yo-jong of North Korea
• Interim Report on UNRWA
• Travel Advice and Warnings during the Ramadan Period
• Pandemic Treaty and Revision of the International Health Regulations (IHR)
• Suitable Politicians for the Next President of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP)
• Political Funds Issue

Press Conference by Foreign Minister KAMIKAWA Yoko (March 22, 2024, 3:28 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • Dates of the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9) and the TICAD Ministerial Meeting
• Situation in the Gaza Strip (Approach to Israel)
• Visit to Japan by Commissioner General of UNRWA
• President-elect of Indonesia
• Holding of Presidential Election in the Northern Territories by Russia
• Japan vs North Korea Football Match (Dispatch of MOFA Personnel)

Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister KAMIKAWA Yoko (March 18, 2024, 7:20 p.m.)

• Opening Remarks
• Question-and-Answer Session

Press Conference by Foreign Minister KAMIKAWA Yoko (March 15, 2024, 3:00 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) Foreign Minister Kamikawa’s Visit to the U.S.
  • (2) Diplomacy toward the Middle East
  • (3) “Golgo 13’s Security Guidelines for Japanese SMEs Abroad”
• UNSC Ministerial Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (Role and Outcomes)
• UNSC Ministerial Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (Outcome Document)
• Nippon Steel Corporation (NSC)’s Acquisition of United States Steel Corporation (U.S. Steel)
• Russia Presidential Election
• Diplomacy toward the Middle East (Funding to UNRWA)
• Japan-U.S.-Philippines Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
• Grant Aid to Ukraine
• “Golgo 13’s Security Guidelines for Japanese SMEs Abroad”
• Diplomacy toward the Middle East (Participation in the Cyprus Maritime Humanitarian Corridor)

Press Conference by Foreign Minister KAMIKAWA Yoko (March 12, 2024, 6:02 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • (1) White Paper on Development Cooperation 2023
  • (2) Participation in the Cyprus Maritime Humanitarian Corridor
• The Election of Ms. AKANE Tomoko, Judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as the President of the ICC
• Funding to UNRWA
• Responding to Extremist Israeli Settlers
• Situation in the Gaza Strip (Call for a Ceasefire)
• Situation in the Gaza Strip (Responding to Israel)

Press Conference by Foreign Minister KAMIKAWA Yoko (March 8, 2024, 11:03 a.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • Humanitarian Assistance to the People of Myanmar Affected by the Coup d'État
• Import Restriction Measures on Japanese Food Products
• China’s Actions in the East China Sea
• Funding to UNRWA
• Resumption of Osprey Operations
• Prime Minister Kishida’s Official Visit to the U.S.
• Political Funds Issue and the Resumption of Osprey Operations

Press Conference by Foreign Minister KAMIKAWA Yoko (March 5, 2024, 5:58 p.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
  • Visit to Japan by H.E. Dr. S. Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs of India
• Japan-Russia Relations (Arrival of the New Russian Ambassador to Japan)
• U.S. Presidential Election
• Japan-Republic of Korea (ROK) Relations (Assessment of the Past Year)
• Situation in the Middle East (Bombing to Syria)
• Situation in Ukraine (Support from Japan)
• Australia-UK-US Trilateral Security Partnership (AUKUS)
• Visit to Japan by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan
• Situation in Ukraine (Sanctions against Russia)

Press Conference by Foreign Minister KAMIKAWA Yoko (March 1, 2024, 11:30 a.m.) (Link to Movie)

• Opening Remarks
• Public Understanding of ODA
• Outlook on Resumption of Funding to UNRWA
• Situation in the Gaza Strip (Humanitarian Crisis)
• Situation in the Gaza Strip (Condemnation of Israel)
• UNSC Ministerial Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
• Japan’s Death Penalty System
• Deliberative Council on Political Ethics
• Additional Sanctions against Russia