JAPAN: PRIME MINISTER YOSHIRO MORI MEETS U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT ON THE LAST LEG OF HER VISIT
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JAPAN: PRIME MINISTER YOSHIRO MORI MEETS U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT ON THE LAST LEG OF HER VISIT
- Title: JAPAN: PRIME MINISTER YOSHIRO MORI MEETS U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT ON THE LAST LEG OF HER VISIT
- Date: 31st July 2000
- Summary: TOKYO, JAPAN (JULY 31, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. SLV EXTERIOR OF PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE 0.05 2. MV U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT ARRIVING; SCU ALBRIGHT AT PHOTO OPPORTUNITY (2 SHOTS) 0.31 3. SCU ALBRIGHT WITH U.S. AMBASSADOR THOMAS FOLEY 0.34 4. SCU JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER YOSHIRO MORI ENTERS AND GREETS ALBRIGHT AND SHAKES HANDS WITH U.S. TEAM - ALBRIGHT AND MORI SIT 1.00 5. SCU ALBRIGHT; ALBRIGHT AND MORI CHATTING AND LEAVING (3 SHOTS) 1.45 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 15th August 2000 13:00
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- Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
- Country: Japan
- Reuters ID: LVAP2GXQBT41XHPOCZXLILV9UKO
- Story Text: U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has met
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on the last leg of her
visit to Japan.
During the meeting on Monday (July 31), Albright
stressed the need for close coordination between the United
States, Japan and South Korea to try to defuse international
concerns over North Korea's missile and nuclear programmes.
Her remarks came at a time when reclusive North Korea has
launched a diplomatic initiative to end its Cold War isolation.
North Korean relations with the rest of the world have
recently been on the mend since an historic meeting between
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and his southern counterpart
Kim Dae-jung in June.
Mori told Albright that Japan would closely coordinate
with the United States and South Korea on its policy on North
Korea.
Japanese and North Korean foreign ministers agreed in a
historic first meeting in Bangkok on Wednesday (July 26) to
resume stalled talks on normalising relations from August 21
to 25 in Tokyo.
U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was in Japan to
make up for not attending a Group of Eight (G8) meeting
earlier in the month.
Over the weekend, Albright went to Miyazaki, the venue of
the meeting, to thank the people of the southern Japanese city
for naming a civic hall after her.
Albright had missed the G8 gathering in order to help U.S.
President Bill Clinton to attempt to broker a Middle East
peace accord at a summit at Camp David, near Washington.
On Sunday (July 30), the 63-year-old secretary of state
had a long meeting with Foreign Minister Yohei Kono, focusing
mainly on bilateral and regional issues, including North Korea
which lobbed a medium-range missile over Japan in 1998.
Albright said she also conveyed to Kono the concerns the
United States had over Japan's whaling programme after a
Japanese whaling fleet departed at the weekend, despite a tide
of criticism from world leaders, including U.S. President Bill
Clinton.
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