Kishi stated the following regarding the desirable form of relations with Asian countries:

(1) Improving Japan's position in the United Nations and the international community is based on strengthening Japan's relations with its neighbors.

(2) Japan aims to contribute to promoting the welfare of the entire Asian region, by developing economic cooperation plans for Southeast Asia and cooperating in the

## Chart I-10 Initial Yen Loans

(1) Taiwan

1965/04/26 1st Yen loan (1) (Zengwen Reservoir etc.)

1st Yen loan (2) (Electric power transmission and supply facility etc.)

(2) Vietnam

1959/05/13 Dai Ninh Hydroelectric Power Plant

(3) Cambodia

1969/03/31 Prek Thnot development

(4) Indonesia

1966/07/01 Yen loans for FY1966

1967/06/09 Yen loans for FY1967

Refinancing (1)

1968/07/02 Yen loans for FY1968 (I)

Yen loans for FY1968 (II) (East Java - Karangkates Dam etc.)

Refinancing (2)

1969/07/04 Yen loans for FY1969 (I)

Yen loans for FY1969 (II) (Tanjung Priok Gas Fired Power Plant)

Refinancing (3)

(9) Afghanistan

1968/11/27 Waterworks project

(10) Iran

1965/07/04 Telecommunications project

(12) Nepal

1970/03/22 Commodity loan

(13) Sri Lanka

(11) Former Yugoslavia

1966/07/30 Commodity loan

(13) Sri Lanka

1966/01/14 Commodity loan

1966/07/09 Commodity loan

1967/09/22 Commodity loan

1968/09/03 Commodity loan

1969/10/24 Commodity loan

(5) Thailand

1968/01/12 1st Yen loan (1) (Installing more telephone lines in the Bangkok Metropolitan Area)

2nd Yen loan (2) (Nam Phrom Hydro-Electric Project etc.)

(6) The Philippines

1969/02/21 Philippines-Japan Friendship Highway

(7) Malaysia

1966/11/22 1st Yen ban (I)

(Frequency multiplication conveyance device etc.)

1st Yen ban (II) (Malaysia subscribers' telephone network etc.)

1st Yen loan (III) (Project of Plantation Refined Sugar plant in Perlis)

(8) Myanmar

1969/02/15 Four industrial projects

(14) Pakistan

1961/11/13 1st Yen loan (Plant development, machinery)

1963/01/31 2nd Yen loan (Plant development, machinery)

1963/09/21 3rd Yen loan (Plant development, machinery)

1964/10/05 4th Yen loan (Plant development, machinery)

1966/05/06 5th Yen loan (Special steel plant project etc.)

1967/02/24 6th Yen loan (Cement plant project etc.)

1967/10/17 7th Yen loan (Fertilizer plant project etc.)

1969/01/18 8th Yen loan (Fertilizer plant project etc.)

1970/02/07 9th Yen loan (Fertilizer plant project etc.)

1958/02/04 1st Yen loan

(Electric power development, shipping, plant development)

1961/08/16 2nd Yen loan (Plant development, machinery)

1963/05/23 3rd Yen loan (Plant development, machinery)

1963/10/24 3rd Yen loan (Plant development, machinery)

1964/09/03 4th Yen loan (Plant development, machinery, raw materials etc.)

1965/06/25 5th Yen loan (Fertilizer plant project etc.)

1966/12/16 6th Yen loan

(Fertilizers, agricultural chemicals, raw materials for use in manufacturing)

1967/07/14 Commodity loan (Urea fertilizer)

1967/08/20 Debt extension

1967/09/05 7th Yen loan

(Fertilizers, agricultural chemicals, parts of raw materials for use in manufacturing etc.)

1968/07/25 Debt extension

1969/02/11 8th Yen loan

1969/07/25 Debt extension

1970/02/28 9th Yen loan (Steel, agricultural chemicals etc.)

1970/03/06 Voh project Aid etc.

(16) Uganda 1969/07/25

1966/07/20 Economic development loan 1970/02/28 9th

(17) Kenya 1970/03/06 Voh

1966/09/07 Economic development loan

(Machinery for use in airport development etc.)

(18) Tanzania 1966/08/10 Economic development loan

(Cashew nut processing plant etc.)

(19) Nigeria 1966/11/23 1st Yen ban (Lagos-Kaduna coaxial cable)

(20) Argentina

1965/10/05 Refinancing

(21) Chile

1965/08/31 Refinancing

(22) Paraguay

1959/07/22 Seven boats for river use

(23) Brazil

1962/01/26 Usiminas Replenishment Funds

Financing to BNDE

1965/02/19 Refinancing (1)

Refinancing (2)

1966/10/07 Refinancing (3)