1.
APEC Japan 2010 Economic Leaders’ Meeting
2.
Prime Minister Kan’s Visit to the G20 Seoul Summit
3.
The First Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster
Munitions
4.
The Aichi-Nagoya Ministerial Meeting of the REDD+
Partnership
5.
COP10 to the Convention on Biological Diversity
(CBD)
6.
ASEAN related Summit Meetings
7.
The PALM Ministerial Interim Meeting
8.
The Eighth Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM 8)
9.
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) |
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JICC
Newsletter
No.1, January 2011 |
3. The First
Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions
The First Meeting of States Parties
to the Convention on Cluster Munitions: Japan Reports the
Implementation of Projects Totaling 12 Million US Dollars
The First Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster
Munitions (CCM) was held from November 9 to 12 in Vientiane, the Lao
People’s Democratic Republic. As the first meeting of States Parties
since the entry into force of the Convention in August 2010, it
provided an opportunity to set a new stage to turn the vision of the
Convention into action. During the meeting, discussions took place
on specific operational issues relating to the implementation of the
Convention, such as universalization of the Convention and the
destruction of stockpiled cluster munitions. Adopting the 2010
Vientiane Declaration and the Vientiane Action Plan by consensus,
which present the direction for States Parties and signatory States
in making specific efforts in the next five years, the States
Parties affirmed their commitment to end the harm caused by cluster
munitions.
From Japan, Mr. Hisashi Tokunaga,
Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, attended the
meeting. In his statement, Mr. Tokunaga explained that as a Friend
of the President on universalization, Japan
was taking a leading role in this area by cooperating with partner
States and civil society representatives, and that
Japan had been supporting the clearance of unexploded
ordnance (UXO), including cluster munitions, and their victims, with
assistance amounting to about 12 million US dollars since the time of signing of the Convention.
Parliamentary Vice-Minister Tokunaga furthermore expressed Japan’s
determination to continue to play an active role in this field.
Japan was commended for making important contributions
to the success of the meeting, including the assistance Mr. Akio
Suda, Ambassador of Japan
to the Conference on Disarmament, had provided to the President of
the Meeting from Laos as the Vice-President.
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