Japan says will sign child abduction treaty
- Published: 19 Jan 2013 at 04.45
- Online news: Asia
Japan's foreign minister said Friday that the new government would sign a treaty on child abductions, addressing one of the few rifts in relations with its main ally the United States.
Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to the press following talks with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the State Department in Washington,DC on January 18, 2013. Kishida said Friday that the new government would sign a treaty on child abductions, addressing one of the few rifts in relations with its main ally the United States.
Japan has not signed or ratified the 1980 Hague Convention, which requires the return of wrongfully held children to the countries where they usually live, but a previous left-leaning government had said it planned to do so.
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