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U.S. President Obama makes a public statement on Japan and the Hague Convention and urges Japanese Prime Minister Noda to resolve existing abduction cases.

United Nations, New York City

September 21, 2011

In a briefing on U.S. Foreign Policy in the Asia Pacific Region on Wednesday, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell reported that during the first meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, President Obama remarked on Japan’s decision to sign the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and also spoke of the need for Japan to resolve the 123 existing cases in which American children have been abducted to Japan.

According to A/S Campbell:

“The President also very strongly affirmed the Japanese decision to enter into The Hague Convention – asked that this – on Child Abduction – asked that these steps be taken clearly and that the necessary implementing legislation would be addressed.

He also indicated that while that was an important milestone for Japan, that – he also asked the Japanese prime minister and the government to focus on the preexisting cases, the cases that have come before.”

Campbell stated that Prime Minister Noda acknowledged the existing cases and that Noda said that he would “take special care to focus on these particular issues as Japan also works to implement the joining of The Hague Convention.”

Read the full text of the briefing here:

http://fpc.state.gov/172931.htm

See also coverage in The Daily Yomiuri:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110923005426.htm

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