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Viewing cable 06TOKYO302, SECRETARY MINETA ELICITS COMMITMENTS FROM MINISTER

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06TOKYO302 2006-01-19 09:49 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Tokyo
VZCZCXRO6725
PP RUEHFK RUEHKSO RUEHNAG RUEHNH
DE RUEHKO #0302/01 0190949
ZNR UUUUU ZZH ZDS
P 190949Z JAN 06
FM AMEMBASSY TOKYO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 7586
INFO RUEHFK/AMCONSUL FUKUOKA 4065
RUEHNAG/AMCONSUL NAGOYA 4193
RUEHNH/AMCONSUL NAHA 6733
RUEHOK/AMCONSUL OSAKA KOBE 7109
RUEHKSO/AMCONSUL SAPPORO 5289
RULSDMK/DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION WASHINGTON DC
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 TOKYO 000302 
 
SIPDIS 
 
C O R R E C T E D COPY (TEXT PARA 1) 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT PLEASE PASS TO DOT DAVID DECARME, EDWARD OPPLER AND 
TYLER DUVALL 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EAIR JA
SUBJECT: SECRETARY MINETA ELICITS COMMITMENTS FROM MINISTER 
KITAGAWA ON CIVAIR TALKS AND BASA 
 
TOKYO 00000302  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
SBU PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY 
 
1.  (SBU) Summary:  At Secretary Mineta's urging, Transport 
Minister Kitagawa promised to become involved personally in 
upcoming civil aviation talks.  Minister Kitagawa also agreed 
with Secretary Mineta on the need to actively pursue the 
Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement (BASA) and to consider 
carefully the U.S. candidate for ICAO Secretary General.  The 
cabinet members also discussed slot constraints at Narita and 
the future of Haneda airport.  End Summary. 
 
Civil Aviation 
 
2.  (SBU) Secretary Mineta and Minister of Land 
Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT) Kazuo Kitagawa expressed 
their satisfaction on the just concluded Transportation 
Security Ministerial (January 11-13) hosted by Japan in their 
meeting on January 13.  Secretary Mineta noted that the civil 
aviation relationship between the U.S. and Japan was 
underpinned by the 1998 amendment, in which both sides had 
agreed to pursue further liberalization. The Secretary noted 
that there had been many meetings since then and that almost 
every year of his tenure he had come to Japan to seek 
progress on negotiations, but the full potential of the 1998 
agreement had not been obtained.  In another effort to 
further progress, in April 2005, he had taken new rights at 
Narita off the table but we were still unable to make the 
progress we should.  The Secretary continued that during all 
this time he had been personally involved on a regular basis 
in the negotiations.  He asked Kitagawa to likewise be 
personally involved to track the negotiations to see if we 
could make progress and expressed his belief that we could. 
 
3.  (SBU) The Secretary also noted that our success last year 
in reaching agreement with China to raise weekly frequencies 
from 53 to 249 was due to the personal involvement of himself 
and his Chinese counterpart.  China found this agreement so 
beneficial that it wanted to move quickly to talks to further 
liberalize the agreement toward Open Skies.  Secretary Mineta 
continued that with the growth of Opens Skies agreements in 
the region and technological improvement, Japan risked 
"overflight" and said that a restrictive agreement was not in 
Japan's long run interest.  The Secretary closed by 
expressing confidence in the Embassy civair officers and his 
negotiators but again said that he would remain involved in 
the talks and asked that Minister Kitagawa would as well. 
 
4.  (SBU) Minister Kitagawa responded that he usually gave 
general directions in bilaterals but left specific matters to 
his negotiators.  Nonetheless, he noted and respected the 
Secretary's request.  He quipped that being involved would 
 
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mean he would have to negotiate with his negotiator. 
Nevertheless as the discussion progressed he promised to 
remain involved and said that he would watch the negotiations 
"very carefully".  Minister Kitagawa's response also included 
the Japanese position on the number of slots maintained by 
U.S. airlines at Narita.  He said that he had requests for 
new service at Narita from 40 countries and that these 
countries questioned why Japan allowed the United States so 
many slots.  He maintained that the number of U.S. slots at 
Narita's was greater than Japan's, a fact the general public 
did not know.  He said the talks should discuss the slot 
situation.  He added that with Centrair and completion of 
runways at Narita and Haneda the situation would change 
significantly by 2010 and the talks should take this into 
consideration.  He noted that completion at Haneda might slip 
to 2010 (from 2009) but that Haneda was mainly seen as a 
domestic hub.  He closed with a pitch to use the new Osaka 
international airport in his home region. 
 
BASA; ICAO 
 
5.  (SBU) Secretary Mineta noted the importance of quickly 
completing the Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement (BASA) to 
support Japanese and U.S. manufacturers cooperation in 
developing new aircraft.  He offered U.S. help in any way 
possible and hoped that the BASA could be signed at the 
September 2006 Safety Forum.  Kitagawa said it was their 
intention to actively discuss this issue. 
 
6.  (SBU) Secretary Mineta noted concerns with the current 
leadership of the International Civil Aviation Organization 
(ICAO) Secretary General.  The United States had expected 
France to nominate a candidate but when they did not the 
 
TOKYO 00000302  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
United States decided just the previous day to nominate 
William Voss, a long time manager at ICAO of integrity. 
Kitamura promised to consider carefully Voss' candidacy. 
 
7.  (SBU) Delegation Members: 
 
US Government Participants: 
Secretary Mineta 
 
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Andy Steinberg, Chief Counsel 
Tyler Duvall, A/S for Transportation Policy 
David DeCarme, International Transportation and Trade Office 
James Zumwalt, Economic Minster-Counselor, Embassy Tokyo 
Daniel Fantozzi, Economic Counselor, Embassy Tokyo 
Chris Metts, FAA Attach, Embassy Tokyo 
 
GOJ Participants: 
Kazuo Kitagawa, Minster of Land Infrastructure and Transport 
Hiroshi Maruyama, Vice Minister of Land Infrastructure and 
Transport 
Ryuhei Maeda, Assistant Vice Minister of Land Infrastructure 
and Transport 
Teiji Iwasaki, Director General for Japan Civil Aviation 
Bureau 
Norifumi Ide, Deputy Director General for Japan Civil 
Aviation Bureau 
 
Postscript 
 
8. (SBU) On January 18, Minister Kitagawa told Osaka Consul 
General Daniel Russell that he had thoroughly enjoyed his 
time with Secretary Mineta and appreciated very much the time 
the Secretary spent in Japan.  Minister Kitagawa said he 
appreciated the Secretary's position in the Cabinet (Kitagawa 
is the only Komeito member of the cabinet in Japan) and felt 
that the Secretary was a skilled politician who was in tune 
with the issues that mattered to the voters. 
DONOVAN