(4 Oct 2024)
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Tokyo – 4 October 2024
1. Tracking shot of Japan’s Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya entering news conference ++STARTS MUTE++
2. Wide of news conference
3. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Takeshi Iwaya, Japan’s Foreign Minister:
“All across Lebanon, security warning level 4 (Evacuate and Avoid All Travel) has been issued, and repeatedly we have been calling for Japanese citizens to leave the country as soon as possible. On October 3, since the situation worsened rapidly, two Japanese nationals, one civilian accompanied by an embassy staff, evacuated from Beirut to Cyprus on a government-chartered vessel."
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4. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Takeshi Iwaya, Japan’s Foreign Minister:
“Regarding the Self-Defense Forces’s plane, on October 27, former Foreign Minister (Minoru) Kihara requested the Defense Minister to start preparing for an evacuation plan, and early October 4, Japan time, they (SDF’s planes) arrived in Jordan.”
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5. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Takeshi Iwaya, Japan’s Foreign Minister:
“At present (in Iran), security warning level 3, Avoid All Travel, or level 4 are in place. We have been asking Japanese nationals an early evacuation while commercial flights are still operational. Immediately after the large scale attack on Israel by Iranian forces, the local embassy and Foreign Ministry alerted Japanese nationals to pay close attention to safety. At present, plans to send a SDF plane, for example, are not in place. But we are taking all precautions for whatever the situation.”
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6. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Takeshi Iwaya, Japan’s Foreign Minister:
“We will do our utmost so that we can respond to any contingency in order to protect the safety of Japanese citizens.”
7. Iwaya leaving
STORYLINE:
As Japan prepares to evacuate its citizens from Lebanon, its government is also urging those in Iran to leave that country as soon as possible while commercial flights are still operating.
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya told reporters in Tokyo Friday that Japan’s embassy in Iran renewed its safety advisory to Japanese nationals this week after Iran fired missiles into Israel.
The Japanese Defense Ministry Thursday dispatched two C-2 transport aircraft to Jordan to stand by for an evacuation of some of about 50 Japanese nationals from Lebanon.
Iwaya said the government has not decided whether to also dispatch defense aircraft to Iran.
About 440 Japanese citizens are based in Iran.
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