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Keynote Speech at the International Conference commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Normalization of Korea-Japan Relation(Seoul, 2-4 June 2004)
1. New Multilateralism and New Bilateral Relations: Japan-Korea Partnership in Global Problem-Solving
Keynote Speech at Ban Landmines/Internatinal Children's Conference, 21-23 August 2004.1. gSeeking together for a path of hopeh
Herald Tribune/Asahi December 6, 2004 gJapan is of one mind with the United States in its counterterrorist commitmenthDDA Occasional Papers |
Contribution of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters to the High-Level
Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, DDA Occasional Papers, No. 8, October 2004 I served as one of the drafters of this document. |
Gender and Human Security:Gender, Disarmament and Reconciliation, The 15th Kitakyushu Conference on Asian Women, 6-7 November, 2004Disarmament Diplomacy and Anti-terroism Strategies, The Japan Economic Review Study Forum, 10 September, 2004U. N. Advisory Board on Disarmament MattersA member since 2003, I attended the 43rd session of the U. N. Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters in Geneva from 30 June to 2 July, 2004. Other members include Mr. Rademaker, U. S. Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Mr. Liu, Director-General of the Chinese Department of Arms Control and Disarmament, and Ambassador Toth of Hungary. Our main task is to advise U. N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on disarmament matters. At this session, export controls were discussed, and we concluded our input paper concerning disarmament and UN reform to the Secretary-Generalfs High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change.
During my stay, I also attended the Geneva Forum Meeting, hosted by Ambassador Rivasseau at the French Mission, and gave a talk in my capacity as Chair of the UN First Biennial Meeting of States on updates on small arms disarmament implementation in different regions.
Please click the Nairobi Ministerial Conference on Small Arms page for relevant materials. For my views on the issue of small arms and the UN High-Level Panel, please see the following statement:
1. Small arms and the UN High-Level Panel
Nairobi Small Arms ConferenceAs Chair of the United Nations First Biennial Meeting of States to Consider the Implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, held from 7 to 11 July last year in New York, and at the invitation of the Kenyan foreign ministry, I attended the Second Ministerial Review Conference of the Nairobi Declaration on Small Arms and Light Weapons from 20-21 April 2004 in Nairobi, Kenya, and gave a speech urging the prompt adoption of the Nairobi Protocol for the Prevention, Control and Reduction of Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa. Ministers for Foreign Affairs and other plenipotentiaries of the countries of the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa, among others, attended the Conference, and finally reached agreement on the Protocol to improve the capacity for action on SALW in a regional context, following several yearsf negotiations.
Below you will find links to the above-mentioned Nairobi Protocol, as well as my speech and thoughts on the Conference (Japanese only).
1. Full text of my speech
2. The Nairobi Protocol for the Prevention, Control and Reduction of Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa
BiographyIn October 2002, in addition to her duties as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Conference on Disarmament, Dr. Inoguchi was appointed Chairperson-Designate of the United Nations First Biennial Meeting of States on Small Arms and Light Weapons, held in New York in July 2003. In this capacity, Dr. Inoguchi instigated numerous consultations with States, regional and international organisations and non-governmental organisations in the lead-up to the Meeting. As Chairperson, she led the Meeting to a successful conclusion with her unfailing drive and enthusiasm.
Furthermore, Dr. Inoguchi served as co-chair to the Standing Committee on Mine Clearance, Mine Risk Education and Mine Action Technologies, an intersessional body of the Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction in 2004. In this capacity, Dr. Inoguchi attended the 2004 Reay Group Workshop on Progress in meeting the aims of the Ottawa Convention in South Eastern Europe, held in Bucharest.
Professor Inoguchi has also made an invaluable contribution in her capacity as Board Member of the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), and Member of the United Nations Secretary-Generalfs Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, particularly in the field of disarmament and reconciliation.
During her term as Ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament, Professor Inoguchi participated in numerous television programmes and documentaries. She also contributed articles to various newspapers and periodicals on a wide range of topics in order to further the cause of disarmament and world peace.
Prior to her appointment as Ambassador, Professor Inoguchi taught first as Associate Professor, then Professor, in the Faculty of Law at Sophia University, Tokyo, from 1981 to 2002. During this period, she was also a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Universityfs Center for International Affairs. She was selected in 1993 among one of 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow.
Professor Inoguchi has been requested by her Government to serve on a number of Councils, including the Prime Ministerfs Defence Policy Review Council, the Prime Ministerfs Administrative Reform Council and the Prime Ministerfs Gender Equity Council. She was also a member of the Special Committee on ITER Project. On the academic side, Professor Inoguchi has served as an executive member of both the Japan Association for International Relations and the Japan Association of Gaming and Simulation, among others. In addition, she has served as a lecturer at civil service training institutions and a commentator on foreign policy and international affairs for newspapers and television.
Her publications include War and Peace (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1989, in Japanese), which earned her the Yoshino Sakuzo Prize, An Emerging Post-Hegemonic System: Choices for Japan (Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 1987, in Japanese), Invitation to Political Science (co-authored, Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 1989, in Japanese) and academic articles published in various journals.
Professor Inoguchi received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 1982. She also received an M.A. from Yale University in 1977 and a B.A. from Sophia University in 1975. Professor Inoguchi is married to Takashi Inoguchi, Ph.D., professor of political science at University of Tokyo, and has two daughters.