(Kyodo) – Taiwan to go ahead with military drills
Kyodo News Service
Jun 08, 2005
TAIPEI – Taiwan’s military said Wednesday it will push ahead with
military drills planned for later this month as it sees no change in
the cross-strait situation following reconciliatory trips to China by
two opposition leaders.
“Chinese military’s training activities around the Taiwan Strait have
so far remained normal and unstopped,” Political Warfare Bureau chief
Gen. Hu Cheng-pu told a news briefing.
Mohamad to visit Japan again in July
SHIZUOKA, Japan – An Iraq boy, whose left eye was injured in fighting
between armed Iraqi groups and U.S. troops in Fallujah, will visit
Japan on July 7 for a medical checkup, the wife of a slain Japanese
journalist who supported the boy said Wednesday.
During his third visit, Mohamad Haytham Saleh, 11, will see doctors
for vision correction at a hospital in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture,
but he will not require further surgery, Yukiko Hashida, 51, said
during a speech in Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture.
Japan, Armenia agree to cooperate on U.N. reforms
TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Armenian Prime
Minister Andranik Margaryan agreed Wednesday to cooperate in reforms
of the United Nations, Japanese officials said.
Margaryan was quoted as telling Koizumi that his country supports
Japan’s bid to become a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.
Marxists pile up pressure on Sri Lanka president
COLOMBO – The Marxist constituent of Sri Lankan President Chandrika
Kumaratunga’s ruling coalition piled up the pressure against a
proposed tsunami aid-sharing deal with ethnic Tamil rebels Wednesday,
saying it will quit the government if she persists with her intention
to sign an agreement with the rebels.
Wimal Weerawansa, the parliamentary group leader of the JVP or
People’s Liberation Front, the third-largest parliamentary party with
39 seats in the 225-member legislature, made the statement in
parliament.
Japan, France, Germany to file debt relief plan for 5 states
TOKYO – Japan, France and Germany will jointly propose at the upcoming
Group of Eight finance ministers meeting in London that donors
significantly reduce the debt burdens of five heavily indebted poor
countries, Japanese Finance Ministry sources said Wednesday.
The proposal calls for freeing the five countries from annual
principal and interest payments on their debts to international
financial organizations until their macroeconomic situations improve
sufficiently to control debt financing, the sources said.
Machimura to co-chair aid session of Iraq donor conference
TOKYO – Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura will co-chair one
of three sessions of a ministerial donor conference on the
reconstruction of Iraq scheduled later this month in Brussels, a
Foreign Ministry source said Wednesday.
Machimura and a representative from the European Union will jointly
chair the session to discuss economic issues and the reconstruction of
Iraq, the source said.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress