Prime Minister Kishida’s Meeting with United Nations Secretary-General Guterres

   
On August 1, commencing at around 12:40 p.m. (local time) for approximately thirty minutes, H.E. Mr. KISHIDA Fumio, Prime Minister of Japan, met with H.E. Mr. António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, on the occasion of the Prime Minister’s visit to New York to participate in the NPT Review Conference. The overview of the meeting is as follows:  
 
1. Prime Minister Kishida welcomed the Secretary-General’s visit to Hiroshima scheduled for August 6. Both sides confirmed further close coordination in order for the NPT Review Conference to achieve a meaningful outcome. Prime Minister Kishida expressed Japan’s commitment to make a contribution of ten million US dollars to the United Nations to set up a “Youth Leader Fund” for a world without nuclear weapons and stated Japan's intention to cooperate with the United Nations.
 
2. Secretary-General Guterres welcomed Prime Minister Kishida's attendance to the NPT Review Conference and, in light of Japan's contribution thus far to the UN, stated that he would welcome  Japan　joining the Security Council once again starting from January next year. Regarding the situation in Ukraine, Prime Minister Kishida commended the Secretary-General’s efforts including realizing the agreement to resume grain export through the Black Sea. Prime Minister Kishida emphasized the importance of strengthening the functions of the United Nations as a whole to support such efforts, and both sides confirmed to cooperate closely to this end.
 
3. Both sides concurred on the importance of TICAD 8 to be held in Tunisia at the end of August.