TOKYO, Sept. 25 -- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan issued the following news release:

On the afternoon of September 25th (local time), Minister for Foreign Affairs IWAYA Takeshi, during his visit to New York, attended the ministerial meeting of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC). The overview of the meeting is as follows.

Minister IWAYA noted that Japan, together with Norway, served as a co-chair of the working group on "Economic Viability of the Palestinian State" at the "High-Level International Conference for the Peaceful Resolution of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution". He stated that Japan has decided to join the Emergency Coalition led by France, Norway, Saudi Arabia and Spain in order ...