Gemba to meet Clinton on Monday
TOKYO —
Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba on Sunday leaves for New York where he will meet U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday.
Gemba, who will be in New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly session, is expected to discuss with Clinton the agreement to relocate the U.S. air base at Futenma to Nago, as well as North Korea and restarting talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership framework for free trade.
After he took office on Aug 26, Gemba spoke with Clinton on the phone and assured her that the government will stick to the accord reached last year to relocate the base to Nago. Gemba also said that Japan’s relationship with the United States remains the cornerstone of Japan’s foreign policy.
Gemba, who will be in New York until next Saturday, is also scheduled to meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung Hwan and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
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voiceofokinawa
Has Okinawa's voice reached Clinton's ears? Or has it fallen on deaf ears? If the latter, then Okinawa's struggle against this make-believe democracy involving the U.S. will keep going on.
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The_True
the meeting go something like this.
GB: ready for instruction!
CT: just do your Japanese things, talk all you want say anything, let all those ignorant old japanese thing they are in control
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Asagao
So he will get his orders from Clinton first, then meet our neighbouring countries and cause a few problems.
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Asagao
Didn't this government(although not this PM), get voted in an unprecedented landslide election victory for the opposition, because the people of Japan spoke in one voice and said..."no base in Nago, move them to Guam"????
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voiceofokinawa
According to Asahi Shimbun, Gemba and Clinton met in New York this morning as scheduled (September 20th Japan Time). As for the Futenma relocation issue, Gemba reassured Clinton that "Japan will implement the bilateral agreement without fail." To which Clinton replied, "We expect the bilateral agreement to be implemented as soon as possible."
Well, has our appeal fallen on deaf ears after all? Has evil won over good?
Look, the U.S. Marines are here only to train for desert war, jungle war and city-type warfare for deployment overseas. They are not here to defend Japan as they ballyhoo or as Tokyo bureaucrats are doped to believe. Such training can be conducted in the U.S. mainland without a hitch. So Futenma can be closed and moved to the U.S. if only Washington decides to do so.
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