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Lennart Meri conference in Tallinn: A Farewell to Peace?

Jack Watling (L), Senior Research Fellow at Royal United Services Institute, Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braze, moderator Steven Erlanger, Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for Europe at The New York Times, and Kaja Kallas, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, attend the Lennart Meri conference in Tallinn, Estonia, on May 17, 2025. LEHTIKUVA / TANEL MEOS - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Tanel Meos/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Lennart Meri conference in Tallinn: A Farewell to Peace?

Jack Watling (L), Senior Research Fellow at Royal United Services Institute, Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braze, moderator Steven Erlanger, Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for Europe at The New York Times, Kaja Kallas, High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, and Mihai Popsoi, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova, attend the Lennart Meri conference in Tallinn, Estonia, on May 17, 2025. LEHTIKUVA / TANEL MEOS - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Tanel Meos/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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LAOS-VIENTIANE-SUN WEIDONG-INTERVIEW

(240610) -- VIENTIANE, June 10, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong speaks during an interview with Xinhua in Vientiane, Laos on June 8, 2024. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong led a delegation to Laos to attend senior officials' meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-China, Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), as well as the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum from June 7 to June 8. Sun told media after the meetings that the participants exchanged views on such issues as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Ukraine crisis, the Korean Peninsula, Myanmar, climate change, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Zhao Xu)

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LAOS-VIENTIANE-SUN WEIDONG-INTERVIEW

(240610) -- VIENTIANE, June 10, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong speaks during an interview with Xinhua in Vientiane, Laos on June 8, 2024. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong led a delegation to Laos to attend senior officials' meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-China, Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), as well as the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum from June 7 to June 8. Sun told media after the meetings that the participants exchanged views on such issues as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Ukraine crisis, the Korean Peninsula, Myanmar, climate change, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. (Xinhua/Zhao Xu)

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Japanese evacuees from Sudan

Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shunsuke Takei (far L) talks to evacuees from conflict-torn Sudan upon their arrival at a Japan Self-Defense Forces base in Djibouti on April 24, 2023. An SDF plane transported 45 Japanese from Port Sudan in the country's northeast the same day.

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Syria supports one-China principle: senior official

STORY: Syria supports one-China principle: senior official DATELINE: Sept. 28, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:50 LOCATION: UN Headquarters CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the general debate of Bassam Sabbagh at UN Headquarters STORYLINE: Syria supports the one-China principle and recognizes China's right to defend its sovereignty. This is according to Syrian Vice Foreign Minister Bassam Sabbagh in his speech at the General Debate of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): BASSAM SABBAGH, Syrian vice foreign minister "Syria supports the one-China principle; it supports the positions of the People's Republic of China in confronting attempts of external interference in its internal affairs; it stresses China's inalienable right to take whatever measures and steps it decides to defend its sovereignty." Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from UN Headquarters. (XHTV)

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Japanese in Sudan evacuated by SDF plane

Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shunsuke Takei meets the press in Djibouti on April 24, 2023, after arriving in the African country to meet Japanese evacuees from conflict-torn Sudan. A Japan Self-Defense Forces plane transported 45 Japanese from Port Sudan in the country's northeast the same day.

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Japan to ask recipients to use oil only for antiterror mission

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Foreign Minister Itsunori Onodera (C) and representatives from the United Nations, Britain, France and Pakistan pose for photos at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 5 after signing documents on Japan's refueling mission in the Indian Ocean.

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N. Korea's nuclear envoy arrives in Singapore

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Ri Yong Ho, a vice foreign minister of North Korea, speaks to reporters upon arrival at Changi Airport in Singapore on Jan. 16, 2015. Ri, North Korea's chief nuclear envoy, is scheduled to meet with former senior U.S. diplomats for North Korean negotiations Stephen Bosworth and Joseph DeTrani for two days from Jan. 18.

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N. Korean nuclear envoy heads to Singapore

BEIJING, China - Ri Yong Ho, a North Korean vice foreign minister, is surrounded by reporters at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing on Jan. 16, 2015, as he leaves for Singapore. Ri, North Korea's chief nuclear envoy, is scheduled to meet with former senior U.S. diplomats for North Korean negotiations Stephen Bosworth and Joseph DeTrani for two days from Jan. 18.

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Abbas meets Japan deputy foreign minister in Cairo

CAIRO, Egypt - Mahmoud Abbas (R), president of the Palestinian Authority, and Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Yasuhide Nakayama meet on the sidelines of the Gaza Donor Conference in Cairo, Egypt, on Oct. 12, 2014.

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Japanese official meets Thai Prime Minister Prayuth

BANGKOK, Thailand - Minoru Kiuchi (L), Japan's senior vice foreign minister, and Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha (R) hold a meeting at the prime minister's office in Bangkok on Oct. 2, 2014. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japan's Kiuchi meets Thai Prime Minister Prayuth

BANGKOK, Thailand - Minoru Kiuchi (L), Japan's senior vice foreign minister, shakes hands with Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha before talks at the prime minister's office in Bangkok on Oct. 2, 2014. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Japan, China, S. Korea fail to agree on holding summit

SEOUL, South Korea - (From L) Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama, Lee Kyung Soo, South Korea's deputy foreign minister for political affairs, and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin shake hands ahead of their talks in Seoul on Sept. 11, 2014. The senior officials from Japan, China and South Korea failed to reach agreement on holding a trilateral summit.

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Japan ready to help Egypt reconstruct nation

CAIRO, July 23 - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Nobuo Kishi (L) indicates Tokyo's intention to assist Egypt's efforts to reconstruct the nation during a meeting with new Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo on July 19, 2014. (Pool Photo)

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U.N. starts nuclear non-proliferation meeting

NEW YORK, United States - Nobuo Kishi, Japanese senior vice foreign minister, delivers a speech at the third session of the preparatory committee for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 28, 2014, the opening day of the meeting to be held through May 9.

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U.N. starts nuclear non-proliferation meeting

NEW YORK, United States - Nobuo Kishi (C), Japanese senior vice foreign minister, delivers a speech at the third session of the preparatory committee for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 28, 2014, the opening day of the meeting to be held through May 9.

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Japan helps Indonesia reduce flood damage

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Japanese Parliamentary Senior Vice Foreign Minister Norio Mitsuya (L) and Jakarta Gov. Joko Widodo inspect a sewerage facility in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 27, 2014, that was renovated with Japan's financial assistance.

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China's senior diplomat tells N. Korea "war or chaos" not allowed

PYONGYANG, North Korea - China's Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin (R) and North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun hug before their bilateral talks in the North Korean capital Pyongyang on Feb. 19, 2014. Liu is the most senior Chinese official to visit Pyongyang since North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's once-powerful uncle Jang Song Thaek was executed in mid-December.

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China's senior diplomat tells N. Korea "war or chaos" not allowed

PYONGYANG, North Korea - China's Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin (2nd from L) and North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun (2nd from R) hold talks in the North Korean capital Pyongyang on Feb. 19, 2014. Liu is the most senior Chinese official to visit Pyongyang since North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's once-powerful uncle Jang Song Thaek was executed in mid-December.

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Pact on fingerprint data

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy, Parliamentary Senior Vice Foreign Minister Norio Mitsuya and Keiji Furuya, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, shake hands after Mitsuya and Kennedy signed the Agreement on Preventing and Combating Serious Crime, at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 7, 2014. The agreement is intended to provide each country instant access to fingerprint data to check the identity of people suspected of involvement in serious crimes such as terrorism.

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Abe's brother visits Yasukuni

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Foreign Minister Nobuo Kishi answers reporters' questions after visiting the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 19, 2013, during its annual autumn festival. Kishi is the younger brother of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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Chinese envoy

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua leaves Japan's Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2013. Cheng held talks with Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki ahead of the anniversary on Aug. 15 of Japan's surrender in World War II, senior Foreign Ministry officials said.

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Chinese envoy

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua leaves Japan's Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2013. Cheng held talks with Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki ahead of the anniversary on Aug. 15 of Japan's surrender in World War II, senior Foreign Ministry officials said.

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Japanese vice foreign minister

BEIJING, China - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki speaks to reporters at Beijing airport before heading back to Tokyo on July 30, 2013. Saiki held talks with senior Chinese officials during his two-day visit.

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Japanese vice foreign minister

BEIJING, China - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Akitaka Saiki speaks to reporters at Beijing airport before heading back to Tokyo on July 30, 2013. Saiki held talks with senior Chinese officials during his two-day visit.

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U.S. energy secretary

VIENNA, Austria - U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz (R) and Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shunichi Suzuki shake hands in Vienna, Austria, on July 1, 2013.

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Japan dispatches gov't aircraft to Algeria

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shunichi Suzuki meets the press at the ministry in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2013, ahead of his departure for Algeria later in the day. Suzuki boarded a government aircraft that left for Algiers to bring home the bodies of seven Japanese as well as seven survivors of the Algerian hostage crisis. Three other Japanese employees of engineering firm JGC Corp. remain unaccounted for.

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U.S. service member's alleged trespass in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos arrives at the Japanese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 2, 2012, at the request of Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shuji Kira, following an alleged trespass earlier in the day by a member of the U.S. military at an apartment in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture. The U.S. serviceman allegedly hit a 13-year-old boy in the apartment.

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S. Korea, U.S. seek stable Korean Peninsula

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean vice foreign minister Ahn Ho Young (R) and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns shake hands ahead of their talks in Seoul on Oct. 16, 2012. The senior South Korean and U.S. diplomats agreed to try to maintain stability on the Korean Peninsula ahead of presidential elections in both countries, South Korea's foreign ministry said.

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Japan emissary delivers letter to China

BEIJING, China - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi answers reporters' questions at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Aug. 31, 2012. Yamaguchi handed a personal letter from Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda addressed to Chinese President Hu Jintao to Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo.

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Noda's letter to China's Hu

BEIJING, China - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi leaves a hotel in Beijing on Aug. 30, 2012. Yamaguchi brought to China a personal letter from Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to Chinese President Hu Jintao in an effort to ameliorate bilateral tensions stemming from a dispute over islands in the East China Sea.

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Emissary bearing Noda's letter arrives in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi arrives at Beijing's international airport on Aug. 28, 2012, bearing a personal letter from Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to Chinese President Hu Jintao, amid heightened bilateral tension over disputed islands in the East China Sea. Japanese government officials said Noda's letter is aimed at expressing Japan's wish to ameliorate the tension, coming on the heels of an attack in Beijing on the official vehicle of the Japanese ambassador to China.

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Emissary bearing Noda's letter arrives in Beijing

BEIJING, China - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi is surrounded by reporters after arriving at Beijing's international airport on Aug. 28, 2012, bearing a personal letter from Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to Chinese President Hu Jintao, amid heightened bilateral tension over disputed islands in the East China Sea. Japanese government officials said Noda's letter is aimed at expressing Japan's wish to ameliorate the tension, coming on the heels of an attack in Beijing on the official vehicle of the Japanese ambassador to China.

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Foreign "cosplayers" visit Japan ministry

TOKYO, Japan - Costume players from Britain (2 women on L back), Russia (2 women on R back) and Indonesia (2 men at front) pose with Senior Vice Foreign Minister Ryuji Yamane (C) at the ministry in Tokyo on July 31, 2012. The three pairs from the countries, dressed in the costumes of their favorite characters from Japanese animation, "manga" comics and video games, paid a courtesy call at the Foreign Ministry, expressing their excitement about performing at the 10th World Cosplay Summit held in Nagoya, ahead of a contest Aug. 4 at the summit that will draw performers from Japan and 19 other countries.

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U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Campbell

TOKYO, Japan - Kurt Campbell, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Oct. 6, 2011, after a meeting with Parliamentary Senior Vice Foreign Minister Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi at the Foreign Ministry. Campbell conveyed to Yamaguchi that the United States would like to invite Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba to Washington by the end of 2011 for talks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. According to a Japanese official, the two also discussed the planned relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station within Okinawa Prefecture and Japan's efforts in deciding whether to join talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact.

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Suu Kyi, Kikuta meet in Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi (R) and Japanese Parliamentary Vice Foreign Minister Makiko Kikuta pose for photos in Yangon, Myanmar, on June 29, 2011, after their meeting. It is the first meeting between a senior Japanese government official and Suu Kyi since August 2002.

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Japan's vice foreign minister visits Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - Japanese Parliamentary Vice Foreign Minister Hisashi Tokunaga (L) and Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa (R) meet in Cairo on May 7, 2011. Tokunaga is the first senior Japanese official to visit Egypt since former President Hosni Mubarak stepped down in February that year.

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Japan, India hold 1st foreign, defense vice minister talks

NEW DELHI, India - (from L) Japanese Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Kenichiro Sasae, Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, Indian Defense Secretary Pradeep Kumar and Japanese Administrative Vice Defense Minister Kimito Nakae shake hands before their meeting in New Delhi, India, on July 6, 2010. The meeting between senior Japanese and Indian officials inaugurates a regular foreign affairs and defense dialogue process between the two Asian countries.

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U.N. to seek dialogue with N. Korea over abduction: Ban

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's Senior Vice Foreign Minister Tetsuro Fukuyama (L) shakes hands with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Oct. 22, 2009, before their talks.

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Opposition LDP picks Tanigaki as new leader

TOKYO, Japan - Sadakazu Tanigaki (2nd from R), the newly elected president of the Liberal Democratic Party, joins hands with former LDP President Taro Aso (2nd from L) and the two other contenders in the party presidential race -- former Parliamentary Vice Foreign Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura (L) and former Senior Vice Justice Minister Taro Kono (R) -- at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2009.

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3 candidates attend public debate for presidential election

TOKYO, Japan - Three candidacies for the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election acknowledge the audience's applause after their debate for the Sept. 28 election at the party's headquarters on Sept. 24, 2009. (From R to L) are former Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki, former Senior Vice Justice Minister Taro Kono and former Parliamentary Vice Foreign Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura.

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3 candidates in LDP presidential election debate in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Three candidates running in the presidential election for the opposition Liberal Democratic Party -- (from L to R) former Parliamentary Vice Foreign Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, former Senior Vice Justice Minister Taro Kono and former Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki -- join hands at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2009, before their public debate session.

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3 candidates formally enter leadership contest for opposition LDP

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Former Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki, 64, former Senior Vice Justice Minister Taro Kono, 46, and former Parliamentary Vice Foreign Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, 46, shake hands during a press conference on Sept. 18, 2009, in announcing their candidacy for the Liberal Democratic Party leadership election slated for Sept. 28, 2009.

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3 LDP lawmakers run in president election

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Sadakazu Tanigaki, a former finance minister, Taro Kono, a former senior vice justice minister, and Yasutoshi Nishimura, a former parliamentary foreign vice minister, file their candidacies for the Sept. 28, 2009 presidential election of the Liberal Democratic Party. The winner will replace Taro Aso as head of the party, which suffered a crushing defeat in the general election in August.

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''World Cosplay Summit'' to be held in Nagoya on Aug. 2-3

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Itsunori Onodera (4th from L), Japanese actress Natsuki Kato (3rd from L) and participants in the ''World Cosplay Summit 2008'' pose for photos at the Foreign Ministry in Japan on July 30. Representatives from 13 countries will take part in the Aug. 2-3 event in Nagoya.

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Onodera speaks on student kidnapping case

TEHRAN, Iran - Japaness Senior Vice Foreign Minister Itsunori Onodera speaks at a press conference at the Japanese Embassy in Tehran on Dec. 5. Onodera said he got the impression that the case of a Japanese university student kidnapped in Iran in October was making more progress toward a solution than the last time he visited the country.

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Japan official meets Mottaki for talks on kidnapped student

TEHRAN, Iran - Japan's Senior Vice Foreign Minister Itsunori Onodera (L) meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in Tehran on Dec. 4 to request that Iran help secure the speedy release of a Japanese university student kidnapped in Iran in October.

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Japan official in Iran for talks on kidnapped student

TEHRAN, Iran - Japan's Senior Vice Foreign Minister Itsunori Onodera fields questions from reporters upon arriving at Tehran airport on Dec. 4. He visited Iran to request that Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and other senior officials help secure the speedy release of a Japanese university student kidnapped in Iran in October.

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Japan official visits Iran again to ask for student's release

TEHRAN, Iran - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Itsunori Onodera arrives at a Tehran hotel on Nov. 4. He made his second visit to Iran to seek the support of the Iranian government in obtaining the early release of Satoshi Nakamura, a 23-year-old Japanese college student kidnapped in southeastern Iran in October.