THE JAPAN‐GUAM DIALOGUE“Future Prospect of the Japan‐GUAM Partnershipfor Democracy and Economic Development”

Conference Papers

May 16, 2013
At the Conference Room, The Japan Forum on International Relations (JFIR)Tokyo, Japan

Co‐sponsored by
The Global Forum of Japan (GFJ)
GUAM‐Organization for Democracy and Economic Development

Table of Contents
1． Program………………………………………………………………………………………………1

2． Participants List……………………………………………………………………………………2

3． Biographies of the Panelists…………………………………………………………………3

4． An Introduction to The Global Forum of Japan (GFJ)……………...….…………..6

5．An Introduction to GUAM-Organization for Democracy and Economic Development……7

1. Program
The Japan-GUAM Dialogue"Future Prospect of the Japan-GUAM Partnershipfor Democracy and Economic Development"
From 13:00 to 15:00 p.m.
on Thursday, May 16, 2013at Conference Room, The Japan Forum on International Relations (JFIR)
Co-Sponsored by
The Global Forum of Japan (GFJ)
and
GUAM-Organization for Democracy and Economic Development

Opening Remarks/ Chairperson(5 min.)ITO Kenichi, President of GFJ / President of JFIR

Keynote Speech A(10 min.)Valeri CHECHELASHVILI, Secretary General of GUAM

Keynote Speech B(10 min.)

MUTSUSHIKA Shigeo, Professor, University of Shizuoka

Keynote Speech C(10 min.)David JALAGANIA, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia(2013 Chair Country)

Keynote Speech D(10 min.)

HIKIHARA Takeshi, Deputy Director-General, European Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Japan

Lead Discussant A(5 min.)Gaya MAMMADOV, Head of the Department of International Security, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Azerbaijan

Lead Discussant B(5 min.)HIRABAYASHI Hiroshi, Vice President of GFJ / Vice President of JFIR

Lead Discussant C(5 min.)Andrei POPOV, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova

Lead Discussant D(5 min.)ISHIKAWA Kaoru, Opinion Leader Member of GFJ / Director of Research of JFIR

Lead Discussant E(5 min.)Oleksandr DANYLEIKO, Director General, Directorate-General for Economic Cooperation,
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

Lead Discussant F(5 min.)WATANABE Hirotaka, Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Free Discussions(45 min.)

All Participants2. Participants List
［GUAM Panelists］
Valeri CHECHELASHVILISecretary General of GUAM

Oleksandr DANYLEIKO

Director General, Directorate-General for Economic Cooperation, MOFA of UkraineDavid JALAGANIA

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia (2013 Chair Country)

Gaya MAMMADOVHead of the Department of International Security, MOFA of Azerbaijan

Andrei POPOV

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova［Japanes Panelists］
ITO Kenichi

President of GFJ / President of the Japan Forum on International Relations (JFIR)ISHIKAWA Kaoru

Opinion Leader Member of GFJ / Director of Research of JFIR

MUTSUSHIKA Shigeo

Professor, University of Shizuoka / President, The Study Group on“Japan-Black Sea Area Relations,” GFJ

HIKIHARA Takeshi

Deputy Director-General, European Affairs Bureau, MOFAHIRABAYASHI Hiroshi

Vice President of GFJ / Vice President of JFIRWATANABE Hirotaka

Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies［Participants］
GUAM Side
Gvantsa BARKAIA

Second Secretary, Embassy of Georgia in Japan

Revaz BESHIDZE

Ambassador of Georgia to Japan

Gursel ISMAYILZADA

Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Japan

Rovshan KAZIMOVFirst Secretary, Economic & Press Affairs, Embassy of Azerbaijan in Japan

Ihor KHARCHENKO

Ambassador of Ukraine to Japan

Ia LOMIDZE

Deputy Director of European Affairs Department, MOFA of Georgia

Noshrevan LOMTATIDZEMinister-Counsellor, Embassy of Georgia in Japan

Yevhen PLIASKINFirst Secretary, Embassy of Ukraine in Japan

Japan Side
KAWATO Akio

General Manager, Japan and World Trends

HAKAMADA Shigeki

Professor, The University of Niigata Prefecture

HIRAI Yukiko

Official, Central and South Eastern Europe Division, European Affairs Bureau, MOFA

ISHIGAKI Yasuji

Delegate to AALCO/Special Assistant, MOFASAKAMOTO Masahiro

Superior Research Fellow of JFIR

TAKAHASHI Kazuo

former Professor, International Christian University

TAKENAKA Shigeo

former Secretary-General, Asian Productivity Organization

WATANABE Mayu

Opinion Leader Governor, GFJ(In Alphabetical Order)2

3. Biographies of the Panelists【GUAM Panelists】
Secretary General, GUAM

Valeri CHECHELASHVILIReceived Ph.D. in International Economy from Graduate School at the Kiev State University. Served as
various positions, including Deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia (1998-2000), Secretary General of theOrganization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (2000-2004), Ambassador Extraordinary andPlenipotentiary of Georgia to the Russian Federation (2004-2005), Minister of Finance of Georgia (2005),
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Swiss confederation, Permanent
Representative of Georgia to the UN Office and Other International Organizations in Geneva (2005) andFirst Deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia (2005).
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia

David JALAGANIA

Received Ph.D. from Georgian Technical University in 1991. Assistant Professor of Georgian Technical
University (1991-1994). Served as various positions, including Deputy Minister, Ministry of Trade andForeign Economic Relations of Georgia (1998-2000), Director of Department of Foreign Aid Coordination(2000-2002), Minister, Georgian Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany (2004-2006), Director of
Department of EU Integration (2006-2008) and Deputy Minister, Ministry of Culture, Monuments
Protection and Sport of Georgia (2008).
Head of the Department of International Security,

Gaya MAMMADOVMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan
Joined the diplomatic service of Azerbaijan in 1998. In his overseas postings, he served as staff officer at
the Defence Policy and Planning Division of the NATO International Staff in Brussels, as political officer
at the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Berlin, and as deputy chief of mission of the diplomatic mission of
Azerbaijan to NATO. From December 2011, he served as Deputy Head of Department for Security Policy,
before he was promoted to the position of Head of Department for International Security in January 2013.
He holds BA and MA degrees from the Baku State University, is alumnus of the NATO Defence College
and received training from the German Diplomatic School in Bonn and Harvard Kennedy School in
Cambridge, MA, USA.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova

Andrei POPOV

Graduated from Bucharest State University in 1994 and National School of Political and Administrative
Studies in 1996. Served in various positions, including First Secretary, United Nations Development
Programme (1996-1997), Director, Embassy of the Republic of Moldova to the United States (1997-2001),
Executive Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Moldova (2001-2004) and Member of
the Parliament of Moldova (2009).

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Oleksandr DANYLEIKO

Director General, Directorate-General for Economic Cooperation,
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

Graduated from Kyiv Academy of Foreign Trade and National Academy of Public Administration.
Entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Served as various positions, including Head of the Division ofbilateral

relations,

Department of

economiccooperation,

Ministry for

Foreign Affairs of

Ukraine(1998-1999), Counselor, charge d'affaires a.i., Embassy of Ukraine in Sweden (1999-2004), Deputy
Head, Foreign Policy Service, Secretariat of the President of Ukraine (2004-2007) and Consul General of
Ukraine in Toronto(2007-2012).
(In order of appearance)【Japanese Panelists】
President, Global Forum of Japan (GFJ)

ITO Kenichi

Graduated from Hitotsubashi University. Entered Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1960. Studied at
Harvard University (1961-1963). Served various positions, including Director of First Southeast Asian
Division until 1977. Served as Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University (1984-2006). Concurrently servingas President of the Japan Forum on International Relations (JFIR), President of Council on East Asian
Community (CEAC), and Professor Emeritus at Aoyama Gakuin University. Received an Honorary
Doctorate from the University of Cambodia (2011).
Professor, University of Shizuoka

MUTSUSHIKA Shigeo/ President, The Study Group on “Japan-Black Sea Area Relations,” GFJ
Graduated from Sophia University in 1976. Received M.A. in International Relations from Sophia
University in 1978 and Ph.D. in Law from University of Bucharest in 1985. Served as Visiting Fellow at
the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Dean of the Facultyof International Relations and a Presidential Aid at University of Shizuoka. Concurrently serves as
President of the Study Group on Japan-Black Sea Area Relations of GFJ as well as Director of the Wider
Europe Research Center at University of Shizuoka.
HIKIHARA Takeshi Deputy Director-General, European Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Graduated from the University of Tokyo. Entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1982. Served as
various positions, including Director of Southwest Asia Division, Asian Affairs Bureau (2000), Director ofFirst Western Europe Division, European Affairs Bureau (2002), Counselor, Cabinet Secretariat (2004),
Minister, Embassy of Japan in Russia (2006), Ambassador, Director-General of the Secretariat for theJapan APEC Meeting in 2010 and Consul General of Japan in Boston (2010).

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Vice President, GFJHIRABAYASHI Hiroshi

Graduated from the University of Tokyo. Entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1963. From 1991 to
2006, served successively as Deputy Chief of Mission in Washington, D.C., Director-General of Economic
Cooperation Bureau at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chief Cabinet Councilor on External Affairs at
Prime Minister’s Cabinet, Ambassador to India and Ambassador to France. Actually, Vice-President of
The Japan Forum on International Relations (JFIR), Executive Vice-President of The Council on East
Asian Community (CEAC), President of the Japan-India Association.
ISHIKAWA Kaoru

Opinion Leader Member of GFJ / Director of Research of JFIR

Graduated from the University of Tokyo and joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1972. Served twiceas G8 Summit foreign affairs sous-sherpa (1999-2001 and 05-07), Director General of Global Affairs
Department (2002-05), Director General of Economic Affairs Bureau (05-07), Ambassador to Egypt andAmbassador to Canada. Visiting Professor of the University of Tokyo (2003-04). Since April 2013,
Director of Research and Superior Research Fellow of the Japan Forum on International Relations.
Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

WATANABE Hirotaka

Graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, where he majored in French. Received Ph.D. from
Keio University and a diploma in advanced studies from the Sorbonne in Paris. Handled public relations
and cultural affairs as minister at the Japanese Embassy in Paris from 2008 to 2010. Has taught at Tokyo
University of Foreign Studies since 1995.
(In order of appearance)54. An Introduction to The Global Forum of Japan (GFJ)【 Objectives 】 As we embrace the 21st century, international relations are becoming increasingly interdependent, andglobalization and regionalism are becoming the big waves. In this global tendency, communicating with the world, especiallyneighboring countries in the Asia-Pacific region at both governmental and non-governmental levels, is one of the indispensableconditions for Japan to survive. On the basis of such understanding, The Global Forum of Japan (GFJ) aims to promote theexchange of views on commonly shared interests and issues in the field ranging from politics and security to the economy, trade,finance, society and culture, and to help business leaders, Diet members and opinion leaders both in Japan and in their counterpart
countries to discuss the formulation of new orders in global and regional arenas.
【History】 The 1982 Versailles Summit was widely seen as having exposed rifts within the Western alliance. Accordingly, there
were expressed concerns that the summit meetings were becoming more and more stylized rituals and that Western solidarity was
at risk. Within this context, it was realized that, to revitalize the summit meetings, there must be free and unfettered exchanges ofprivate-sector views to be transmitted directly to the heads of the participating states. Accordingly, Japanese former Foreign
Minister OKITA Saburo, U.S. Trade Representative William BROCK, E.C. Commission Vice President Etienne DAVIGNON, andCanadian Trade Minister Edward LUMLEY, as representatives of the private-sector in their respective countries, took the initiativein founding The Quadrangular Forum in Washington in September 1982. Since then, the end of the Cold War and the alterednature of the economic summits themselves had made it necessary for The Quadrangular Forum to metamorphose into The Global
Forum established by the American and Japanese components of The Quadrangular Forum at the World Convention in
Washington in October 1991. In line with its objectives as stated above, The Global Forum was intended as a facilitator of global
consensus on the many post-Cold War issues facing the international community and reached out to open its discussions not only
to participants from the quadrangular countries but also to participants from other parts of the world. Over the years, the gravityof The Global Forum's activities gradually shifted from its American component (housed in The Center for Strategic andInternational Studies) to its Japanese component (housed in The Japan Forum on International Relations), and, after the Americancomponent ceased to be operative, the Board of Trustees of the Japanese component resolved, on February 7, 1996, that it would
thereafter act as an independent body for organizing bilateral dialogues with Japan as a hub for all countries in the world, andamended its by-laws accordingly. At the same time, The Global Forum's Japanese component was reorganized into The Global
Forum of Japan (GFJ) in line with the principle that the organization be self-governing, self-financing, and independent of any
other organization.
【 Organization】 The Global Forum of Japan (GFJ) is a private, non-profit, non-partisan, and independent membershiporganization in Japan to engage in and promote international exchanges on policy-oriented matters of bilateral, regional and global
implications. While the secretariat is housed in The Japan Forum on International Relations, GFJ itself is independent of any otherorganizations, including The Japan Forum on International Relations. Originally established as the Japanese component of The
Quadrangular Forum at the initiative of HATTORI Ichiro, OKITA Saburo, TAKEYAMA Yasuo, and TOYODA Shoichiro in 1982,
GFJ is currently headed by OKAWARA Yoshio as Chairman, ITO Kenichi as President and HIRABAYASHI Hiroshi as Vice
President. The membership is composed of 10 Business Leader Members including the two Governors, MOGI Yuzaburo and
TOYODA Shoichiro; 19 Diet Members including the three Governors, ASAO Keiichiro, KOIKE Yuriko, and TANIGAKI Sadakazu;
and 89 Opinion Leader Members including the two Governors, SHIMADA Haruo, and WATANABE Mayu. Friends andsupporters of The Global Forum of Japan are organized into the Supporters’ Club of the Global Forum of Japan.
【Activities】Since the start of The Global Forum of Japan (GFJ) in 1982, GFJ has shifted its focus from the exchanges with the
Quadrangular countries for the purpose of contributing to the Western Summit, to those with neighboring countries in the
Asia-Pacific region including the U.S., China, Korea, ASEAN countries, India, Australia, European countries, and Wider Black Sea
area, for the purposes of deepening mutual understanding and contributing to the formation of international order. GFJ has been
active in collaboration with international exchange organizations in those countries in organizing policy-oriented intellectual
exchanges called “Dialogue.” In order to secure a substantial number of Japanese participants in the “Dialogue,” GFJ in principle
holds these “Dialogues” in Tokyo. A listing of topics of “Dialogues” and its overseas co-sponsors in the last five years is given
below.
Year

Month
March

2013

2012

February
January

OctoberJuly
February
February
September
May
2010

2009

Co-sponsor

Future Prospect of the Japan-GUAM Partnership for Democracy andEconomic Development
How to Develop Japan and Black Sea Area Cooperation
Toward a Future-Oriented Japan-China Relationship

GUAM-Organization for Democracy and Economic Development
Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC)
School of Environment, Beijing Normal University
World Resources InstituteCollege of Public Administration, Zhejiang University
Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
ASEAN Institutes of Strategic and International Studies
Fudan University
Nanyang Technological University
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
China Association of Asia-Pacific Studies

September Japan-U.S. Alliance at a New Stage: Toward a Provider of International
Public Goodss
March
The Future of ASEAN Integration and Japan's RoleMarch
The Rise of Emerging Countries and the Future of Global GovernanceFebruary

2011

Topic

February
January
September
June
April

The Asia-Pacific Region in Transition and the Japan-U.S.-China
Relations
The Japan-China Relations at Crossroads
The Great East Japan Earthquake and Regional Cooperation on
Disaster Management
The Japan-U.S. Relations in the Era of Smart Power
East Asia in Transition and New Perspectives on Regional
Cooperation
East Asian Regional Architectures and Japan-India Relations
Promoting Japan-U.S. Cooperation in Non-Traditional Security:
the Case of Counter Piracy
Promoting Japan-China Cooperation on Environmental Issues ofthe 21st Century: In Pursuit of Recycling Society
Prospects of Changing Black Sea Area and Role of Japan
Japan-ASEAN Cooperation amid the Financial and Economic Crisis
Prospect of Japan-China Relationship in the Changing World
US-Japan Relations Under the New Obama Administration

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China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR)
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, etc
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (U.S.)
International Studies Department, Vietnam National University(Vietnam)
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (India)
National Bureau of Asian Research (U.S.)
School of Environment, Beijing Normal University (China)
Organization of Black Sea Economic Cooperation
ASEAN-ISIS
China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (China)
National Committee on American Foreign Policy (U.S.)5. An Introduction to GUAM-Organization for Democracy andEconomic Development
Cooperation between Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova started with the GUAM
consultative forum, established on October 10, 1997. The GUAM Member States are guided by theprinciples of respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity of the states, inviolability of theirinternationally recognized borders, and non-interference in their internal affairs as well as otheruniversally recognized principles and norms of the international law. Important principle of
GUAM is the decision taking by consensus that makes it possible to take fully into account theinterests of every Member State.
The main purposes of GUAM are:- promoting democratic values, ensuring the rule of law, and respect for human rights;- ensuring sustainable development;- strengthening international and regional security and stability;- deepening European integration for the establishment of common security space, and expansionof cooperation in economic and humanitarian spheres;- development of social and economic, transport, energy, scientific and technical, and humanitarian
potential of the Parties;- intensification of political interaction and practical cooperation in the field of mutual interest.
GUAM is an Organization based on the developed network of mechanisms and instruments ofinteraction including GUAM Strategy for Sector Cooperation Development. Working Bodies
GUAM are accordingly streamlining their activities with a view of GUAM projects and programs
implementation. Country-Coordinators, in close cooperation with Chairmanship are developing
activities to translate potential of the Organization into tangible results, ultimately contributing toregional stability, integration and improving of living standards.
Under the current Georgian Chairmanship GUAM is focusing activities on the process ofgeneration, elaboration and implementation of concrete projects and programs of GUAM
cooperation. GUAM member states have very close, if not coinciding set of foreign policy priorities
and consider GUAM as format, reinforcing position of individual member state in the network ofinternational relations.
Presidency and country-coordinators of the Sectoral Working Groups are facilitating their efforts todevelop necessary legal platform, including that one in spheres of free movement of capital, goods,
services, and labor. Sector cooperation bodies are invited to initiate practically oriented projects ofeconomic cooperation, including those in the “GUAM+” format, with a broad engagement ofbusiness circles and in this light to capitalize on positive GUAM experience.
The main goal of GUAM is to establish space of stability and integration in the Black Sea – CaspianSea region; space of partnership, based on the European standards, criterias and practice. While
implementing this main goal, we are using two main avenues of cooperation: 1) elaboration,
signature and implementation of GUAM format multilateral legal instruments, and 2) generation,
elaboration and implementation of GUAM projects and programs.
[Contact Information]
Secretariat GUAM
Ukraine 01001 Kyiv,
Sofievska str. 2-А,Tel. + 380 44 206 37 37 Fax. +380 44 206 30 06

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