Official issues: summary record, lists of participants, programme, minutes of the Working Groups (General Affairs, Earth Observation, Telecommunications, Network Operations, Space Experiment, Space Transportation).
Topics discussed include: disaster monitoring and management; staff exchange; ESA/NASDA network status; emergency cross support; potential tracking support; Memorandum of Understanding on ESA/NASDA hardware exchange; space stations status.
The dossier contains the joint report of the ESA/Japan ad-hoc Working Group, 3 July 1997 (including minutes of the first meeting of AHWG held on 8-9 Februay 1996; minutes of the 21st ESA/Japan annual meeting on Artemis cooperation discussion in the framework of the AJWG, held on 17 June 1996; joint statements on the conclusions of the 21st meeting and of the AHWG).
Working paper: "ESA programmes since the 21st ESA/Japan annual meeting and future plans".
The dossier contains also: correspondence on the organisation of the meeting; minutes of the 12th Japan/ESA Telecommunications Experts meeting held in Tokyo on 22-23 April 1997; outline of policy for Japanese satellite positioning technology development; minutes of the ESA/Japan meeting on disaster monitoring and management, held in Paris on 26-27 March 1997.

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