ASEAN noted that Japan had reduced preferential tariff rates for some products and raised the quota ceiling for industrial products by around 50% from fiscal year 1983. ASEAN expressed Hope that further tariff reductions on products of vital interest to ASEAN will soon be made.
The First ASEAN - Japan Ministerial Meeting on Science and Technology was held in Tokyo in December 1983.
On the Japanese funded ASEAN Regional Studies Promotion Programme, the Phase I Overview Papers on ASEAN - Japan Industrial Cooperation were completed.
On the Japan ASEAN Cooperation Promotion Programme (JACPP), Japan had provided a sum of 40 million yen for fiscal year 1984 to finance the activities under this programme. ASEAN - Japan Investment Promotion meetings were organised under the JACPP in Tokyo and Kobe in April 1984.
Under the ASEAN - Japan Youth Friendship Programme for the 21st Century, 150 youths from each ASEAN country will visit Japan for a period of one month annually under a five-year programme.
For the Financial Year 1983, the third annual allocation of the Japan Scholarship Fund for ASEAN Youth was received by the ASEAN Secretariat in July 1983. All five member countries had received their allotments of US$ 200,000 each to finance their scholarship programme for 1983.
Up to the end of 1983, about 230 awards had been given to young civil servants and students from ASEAN. The field of studies varied according to each country's priority. In general they covered wide areas of short and long term training: from applied technology, managerial skills to agriculture and cottage industries, as well as first degree and post-graduate courses tenable at universities and vocational institutions in some Asian countries, Japan, Australia, United Kingom and the United States.
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