The delegation from Qatar with the officials of the Japanese ministry of foreign affairs during their visit to Tokyo.
As part of the preparations for 13th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to be hosted in Doha in April 2015, a Qatari delegation visited Japan recently.
The delegation headed by the Chairman of the UN Congress Preparatory Committee Major General Dr Abdullah Yusuf al-Mal held discussions with Japanese Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Takashi Uto.
The ambassador of Qatar to Japan Yusuf Mohamed Bilal also attended the meeting.
During the meeting, Japan’s efforts in support of the conference were reviewed. The Japanese side has expressed its keenness to participate in the high-level meeting.
The delegates also met the Attorney General of Japan, Kotaro Ono, and held discussions on the preparations for the conference. The Japanese attorney general lauded the efforts of Qatar for the success of the conference.
Official talks were also held between the two sides in the presence of the ambassador of Qatar to Japan and Dimitri Vlassis, the Chief of UNODC’s Corruption and Economic Crime Branch.
All topics and workshops to be included in the conference and vision of Japan on the draft Doha Declaration were reviewed and discussed in the presence of representatives from the ministries of interior, foreign affairs and justice.
The Qatari delegation earlier visited the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime to get a clear picture of the institute’s functioning and its efforts for the participation in workshops to be held on the sidelines of 13th UN Congress on Crime Prevention.
