Identifier
Created
Classification
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07TOKYO4558
2007-09-28 08:55:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Tokyo
Cable title:  

JAPAN APPROVES PDG DECLARATION OF PRINCIPALS

Tags:  EAID KDEM OAS JA 
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FM AMEMBASSY TOKYO
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 8064
C O N F I D E N T I A L TOKYO 004558

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

FOR S/P JEAN GERAN, JAMES GREENE, AND RICHARD SOKOLSKY

E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/27/2017
TAGS: EAID KDEM OAS JA
SUBJECT: JAPAN APPROVES PDG DECLARATION OF PRINCIPALS

REF: A. TOKYO 3719

B. TOKYO 3831

C. STATE 131040

Classified By: Ambassador J. Thomas Schieffer for reasons 1.4 (b) and (
d).

(C) Embassy Tokyo Political officer delivered reftel demarche
September 19 and followed up September 28 with MOFA Aid
Policy Planning Division Principal Deputy Director Yukiko
Okano. Okano said that Japan agrees with the Declaration of
Principals, and will most likely send their Ambassador to the
United Nations, Yukio Takasu, to the October 1 rollout.
Japan's position on a financial contribution remains
unchanged, she said, noting that in 2006 the Cabinet Council
on Economic and Fiscal Policy decided on an annual 2-4
percent reduction in overseas development assistance (ODA)
for the following five fiscal years, a policy that was
reaffirmed August 9. MOFA officials have requested a 13.9
percent increase in the ODA budget, but the Ministry of
Finance will review and adjust the budget prior to submitting
it for consideration by the Diet in January 2008. Okano was
"very sure" that the Ministry of Finance would reduce the ODA
budget from a 13.9 percent increase to a 3 percent reduction,
but said that if the MOFA-proposed budget remains intact,
Japan will make a contribution to the PDG.
Schieffer