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Index and Abbreviations DIPLOMATIC BLUEBOOK 2005 Index and Abbreviations DIPLOMATIC BLUEBOOK 2005 Index <Notes> 1. This index is comprised of terms that can be found in the main text (including charts), columns, and topics. 2. The figures indicate the page numbers on which references to the terms appear. Italicized figures denote terms that appear in the charts, columns or topics. Numbers 13, 15, 18, 19, 34, 42, 43, 45, 46, 49, 50, 52, 54, 56, 57, 150th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic rela- 58, 59, 60, 63, 73, 137, 139, 139, 140, 157, 159, 162, tions between the two countries [Japan and Russia]: 167, 168, 169, 170, 177, 184, 187, 201, 218, 253 87, 91 ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF): 5, 18, 56, 138, 140, 142 1993 Tokyo Declaration: 88 B 386 generation: 32 3R: 9, 172, 174, 185, 187 barrier: 104 3rd Africa-Asia Business Forum: 118, 121 Bills Concerning Responses to Armed Attack Situations: 4th plenary session of the 16th Central Committee: 38 218 9/11 Commission: 66 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC): 153, 156, 157 biometrics: 239 A Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE): 63, 65, 70 abduction: 47, 98, 235, 237, 239 Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative: 114, 115, abduction and murder of a Japanese national: 235 116 abduction cases involving Japanese nationals [in Iraq]: 239 Byrd Amendment: 65, 166 abduction issue: 3, 11, 21, 24, 26, 69, 191, 192 C Abu Dhabi Meeting: 13, 100 Action Plan for Prevention of Terrorism: 140 Central Asia Plus Japan: 14, 87, 93 Additional Protocol: 8, 111, 133, 133, 153, 155, 218 Central Asian Cooperation Organization (CACO): 92, 93 Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions: 218 Chechen Republic: 91 administrative and budgetary reform: 143, 145, 147 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC): 153, 155, 156, 157 advancing the adoption of Information and Communica- Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA): 8, 94, 95, 96 tions Technology: 258 Colombo Plan: 197, 198 Advisors on Consular Affairs: 233, 234, 248 Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP): 78, 79 Advisory Group on International Cooperation for Peace: Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS): 92 147 Composite Dialogue: 10, 51, 52 African Union (AU): 3, 114, 117, 119, 120, 122, 123, 196 Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on aid fatigue: 120 the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dig- Al-Qaeda: 2, 52, 66, 69, 98, 110, 134, 138 nity of Persons with Disabilities: 193, 230 amended Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT): 7, 152 (ASCA): 218 comprehensive partnership between Japan and Mongolia: anniversary projects: 214, 215 41 Anti-Dumping Act of 1916: 65 Conference on Disarmament (CD): 154 anti-dumping measures on certain hot-rolled steel prod- consolidation of peace: 13, 15, 18, 53, 83, 108, 109, 121, ucts from Japan: 65 122, 124, 125, 147, 148, 148, 195, 202, 204, 253 anti-personnel landmines: 148, 152, 153, 159, 160 consular affairs advisors: 233 Anti-Secession Law: 10, 41 Consular Services Headquarters: 7, 233, 250 ASEAN-Japan Committee on Comprehensive Economic consultations concerning the East China Sea: 35, 37 Partnership (AJCCEP): 170 Convention on the Conservation and Management of ASEAN-Japan Joint Declaration for Cooperation in the Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Fight Against International Terrorism: 139 Central Pacific Ocean: 178 Asia-Africa Public-Private Joint Forum: 121 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM): 18, 46, 48, 50, 56, 57, 60, 82, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines 137, 161 and on Their Destruction: See Ottawa Convention 5th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM 5): 48, 82 Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons: 86, 240 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC): 5, 18, 24, 34, Council of Europe (CE): 86 40, 45, 48, 56, 57, 59, 60, 63, 72, 75, 87, 88, 115, 129, Council of Overseas Economic Cooperation-Related Min- 134, 137, 138, 139, 140, 161, 162, 174, 253, isters: 200, 201 APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting: 34, 35, 40, 45, 48, 59 Council on the Movement of People Across Borders: 233, Asian Senior-level Talks on Non-Proliferation (ASTOP): 242, 249 152, 159 Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG): 137, 138 assistance to the Palestinians: 106, 107 Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC): 137 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): 3, 5, 11, counter-terrorism conventions and protocols: 134, 138 306 INDEX AND ABBREVIATIONS Counter-Terrorism Task Force (CTTF): 137, 139, 139 Forum for the Future: 114, 115, 115, 116 Country Assistance Program for Mongolia: 41 Four Northern Islands: 87 crisis management: 7, 79, 140, 233, 236, 248, 250, 253, 256, fourth phase of liberalization: 29 257, 258 fourth plenary session of the 16th National Congress of Crisis Management Seminars: 140, 237, 253 the Communist Party of China: 38 cultural cooperation: 42, 103, 207, 212, 249 Framework of the Mutual Prior Notification of Ocean Re- cultural grant aid: 102, 212 search Activities: 12, 37 Free Trade Agreement (FTA): 12, 18, 42, 46, 57, 60, 68, 73, D 74, 75, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 218, 252 Darfur: 69, 114, 124, 150, 175, 195, 196 G declaring a state of emergency: 97, 98 dialogue among civilizations: 13, 94, 113, 116, 207, 211 G8 Action Plan on Nonproliferation: 152 diplomatic records disclosure: 258 G8 Secure and Facilitated International Travel Initiative Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration of Ex- (SAFTI): 137, 138, 172 Combatants (DDR): 86, 108, 111, 122, 148 Gleneagles Summit [G8]: 119, 187 Doha Development Agenda: 163, 166 Global Coalition for Africa (GCA): 120 Doha Meeting: 13, 100 Governorate Councils: 97, 97 draft resolution entitled “A path to the total elimination of governorate of Al-Muthanna: 100, 102, 102, 103, 106 nuclear weapons”: 155 Grand National Party (GNP): 32, 33 draft resolution on nuclear disarmament: 155 grant aid for cultural heritage: 112, 212 Grassroots Cultural Grant Aid: 101, 212 E Group of Eight (G8): 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 62, 69, 76, 82, 97, 110, e-passports, which carry IC chips containing facial images 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 137, 138, 139, 144, 148, as biometric information: See IC passports 150, 152, 162, 172, 173, 183, 184, 187, 189, 190, 196, East African Community (EAC): 123 198, 239 Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific G8 Africa Action Plan (AAP): 117 (ESCAP): 183, 193 G8 Kyushu-Okinawa Summit: 117, 183, 198 Economic and Social Council: 145, 147, 193 G8 Summit: 173 Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS): Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): 112 122 H Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA): 13, 30, 73, 163, 167, 168, 168, 169, 170, 218, 252 Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Prolifera- emergency legislation: 5, 11 tion (HCOC): 157 Eminent Persons’ Group on UN Reform: 11, 143, 147, 252, High-Level Panel: 8, 11, 143, 144, 145, 181, 252 253 human security: 6, 20, 83, 120, 122, 160, 181, 182, 183, 184, enemy-state clauses: 143 195, 198, 200, 201, 202, 253, 254, 257 establishment of the Consular Affairs Bureau: 233 Advisory Board on Human Security: 181, 182 EU-Japan Year of People-to-People Exchanges: 14, 76, 80 Commission on Human Security: 181, 182 European Constitutional Treaty: 11, 76, 77, 78, 79 Human Security Network: 183 European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP): 78, 79 Trust Fund for Human Security: 181, 182, 183 European Union (EU): 2, 9, 10, 11, 14, 40, 58, 60, 74, 76, Hyogo Framework for Action: 9, 189 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 86, 91, 92, 104, 106, 113, 119, I 123, 140, 163, 167, 168, 178, 179, 190, 196, 219, 244, 245 IC passports: 138, 240 export control: 7, 8, 140, 153, 154, 156, 157 Improving the Operation of Criminal Trial Procedures: extension of the outer limit of the continental shelf: 177 132 Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI): 95, 97 F India-ASEAN Partnership for Peace, Progress and Shared Fallujah: 96, 97, 98 Prosperity: 52 Financial Action Task Force (FATF): 137, 189, 190 India-Pakistan Relations: 50, 51 Financing of Terrorism: 134, 137, 139, 139, 140, 190 infectious diseases: 2, 7, 9, 15, 42, 60, 117, 142, 143, 156, first Great Lakes Region Summit: 123 181, 183, 198, 201, 204, 222, 229, 240, 253 first high-level policy dialogue between Japan and the information gathering and analysis: 100, 256 SADC: 123 Innovative Canada-Japan Economic Framework: 70 First United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF I): 151 intellectual exchange: 207, 211, 212 Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT): 154 Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD): Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 119, 123 (FAO): 50, 175 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): 8, 14, 23, Foreign Ministry’s website: 132, 214, 254, 255 111, 111, 112, 152, 153, 153, 154, 155, 224 Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation IAEA safeguards system: 152, 154 (FEALAC): 18, 72 resolutions of the IAEA Board of Governors: 8, 111, 307 DIPLOMATIC BLUEBOOK 2005 111, 112, 153 Kyoto Protocol: 9, 92, 185, 188, 218 International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO): 240 Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Con- international humanitarian relief operations: 150, 150 vention on Climate Change: 218 International Peace Cooperation Law: 4, 150, 150 L International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq (IRFFI): 96, 98, 99, 100, 103, 112, 214 Law Concerning the Special Measures on Humanitarian International Science and Technology Center (ISTC): 179 and Reconstruction Assistance in Iraq: 96, 97, 100, International Space Station (ISS): 179 101 International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transi- (ITER): 179, 180 tional Period:
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