What's New August 2018
- August 31
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- Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (August 31 12:16 PM)
- Prime Minister Abe Meets with H.E. Mrs. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President-elect of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly
- Tax Convention between Japan and Lithuania entered into force
- Japan-Turkey Foreign Ministers’ Telephone Conversation
- Entry into force of the Tax Convention between Japan and Estonia
- Japan House London Grand Opening
- August 30
- August 29
- August 28
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- Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (August 28 2:05 PM)
- Dispatch of a Special Envoy of the Prime Minister for the Inauguration Ceremony of the President of Zimbabwe
- Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Republic of Djibouti, H.E.Mr. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf to Visit Japan
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Foreign Minister Kono Visits Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Mexico (YouTube Video)
- August 27
- August 25
- August 24
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- Foreign Minister Kono Visits United States of America(San Francisco)
- Fourth Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (Outline of the Conference)
- Visit to Japan by Her Excellency Mrs. Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President-elect of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly
- Emergency Assistance to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in response to the Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak
- Commencement of negotiations for the tax convention with the Republic of Ecuador
- August 23
- August 22
- August 21
- August 20
- August 19
- August 17
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- Japan-Mexico Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
- Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (August 17 7:15 PM)
- Foreign Minister Kono pays a courtesy call on President-elect of the United Mexican States
- Response to the Joint Communication from three UN Special Rapporteurs from the Government of Japan concerning workers who engage in decontamination and related work after TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi NPS accident
- Foreign Minister Kono Attends the Fourth Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty
- August 16
- August 14
- August 13
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- Japan-Ecuador Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, E/N Signing Ceremony, Joint Press Occasion and Lunch Meeting Hosted by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ecuador
- Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (August 13 2:25 PM)
- Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Maritime Interdiction Exercise "Pacific Shield 18" hosted by Japan
- August 10
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- Approval of H.E. Ms. Michelle Bachelet Jeria, Former President of the Republic of Chile, as the next United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights by the UN General Assembly (Statement by Foreign Minister Taro Kono)
- Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (August 10 9:47 AM)
- Foreign Minister Kono Holds Lunch Meeting with Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of State of the United Arab Emirates
- August 9
- August 8
- August 7
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- Meeting between Mrs. Akie Abe, the spouse of the Prime Minister of Japan and Mrs. Eloise Gonsalves, the spouse of the Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- Japan-Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Summit Meeting
- Agreement on the outstanding issues of governance for the revitalized transitional period in South Sudan (Statement by Press Secretary Takeshi Osuga)
- August 6
- August 5
- August 4
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- Eighth Japan-United States-Australia Trilateral Strategic Dialogue (TSD)
- Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (August 4 7:02 PM)
- Japan-Cambodia Foreign Ministers' Meeting
- The 25th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Ministerial Meeting
- The Eighth East Asia Summit (EAS) Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
- The 19th ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
- August 3
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- Foreign Minister Kono Held Informal Talks with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of Papua New Guinea
- Japan-Australia Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
- Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (August 3 9:41 PM)
- 11th Mekong-Japan Ministerial Meeting
- Japan-EU Foreign Ministers’ Working Lunch
- Japan-Indonesia Foreign Ministers' Meeting
- Japan-Timor-Leste Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
- Suspicion of illegal ship-to-ship transfers of goods by NAM SAN 8, North Korean-flagged tanker, and vessel of unknown nationality
- August 2
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- Japan-ROK Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
- Japan-Iran Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
- Japan-Canada Foreign Ministers' Meeting
- Japan-China Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
- Extraordinary Press Conference by Foreign Minister Taro Kono (August 2 7:40 PM)
- Japan-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting
- Japan-Brunei Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
- Japan-Turkey Foreign Ministers’ Meeting
- Agreement in principle on the Japan-ASEAN Technical Cooperation Agreement
- Meeting between Mrs. Akie Abe, the spouse of the Prime Minister of Japan and Mrs. Michelle Muscat, the spouse of the Prime Minister of Malta
- August 1