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25-04-2025
- Politics
Japan Foreign Min. Iwaya to Attend Pope's Funeral
News from Japan Politics Apr 25, 2025 20:36 (JST) Tokyo, April 25 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya will attend the funeral of Pope Francis in the Vatican on Saturday, the Foreign Ministry said Friday. During his 10-day overseas trip through May 4, Iwaya will visit the Vatican, the United States, Senegal, Saudi Arabia and France. "Amid deepening divisions within the international community, maintaining and strengthening a free and open international order based on the rule of law has become more important than ever," Iwaya told reporters Friday. In the United States, he is set to deliver a speech at the third Preparatory Committee session for the 2026 Review Conference of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which will begin on Monday in New York. Iwaya will be the third Japanese foreign minister to attend a preparatory committee meeting and the first since Taro Kono in April 2018. [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.] Jiji Press
Japan Times
11-04-2025
- Politics
- Japan Times
Japan's foreign minister to attend NPT review prep meeting
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya will attend the third Preparatory Committee session for the 2026 Review Conference of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, to be held in New York from April 28, government sources said Friday. Iwaya will be the first Japanese foreign minister to attend such a meeting since April 2018. His participation is aimed at demonstrating Japan's commitment to the NPT regime, according to the sources. He is expected to deliver a speech at the meeting to reiterate Tokyo's determination to achieve nuclear disarmament and abolition. Last month, the government did not participate in the third meeting of signatories to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, held in New York, although it was asked to do so by the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, which won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. At that time, Iwaya stated that it was desirable to promote international nuclear disarmament under the NPT. "It's more important than ever to maintain and strengthen the NPT regime, which is the cornerstone of international nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation," Iwaya told a news conference Friday. "I'll do my best to achieve substantial results."
