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Points on U.S.-Japan S&T Agreement Negotiations
Background
The U.S. -Japan Agreement on Cooperation in Research and
Development in Science and Technology expires on January 31,
1988 and is presently being renegotiated. The Agreement was
signed by President Carter and Prime Minister Ohira and
entered into force for five years on April 30, 1980. The
Agreement has since been extended three times; most recently
for three months to allow for the renegotiations.
Key criticisms of the 1980 Agreement are:
- Projects performed under it have not approached the
level of importance originally anticipated,
- It does not serve to coordinate bilateral S&T policy,
- It lacks an effective management mechanism, and
- Other issues, such as reciprocity in the S&T
relationship, the protection of intellectual property
rights, and security concerns, have assumed new
importance since 1980.
A diplomatic note and five annexes to the 1980 Agreement to
address these issues were drafted in an extensive
interagency process, and transmitted to the Government of
Japan at the end of August 1987.
The five annexes address:
- The identification of criteria for cooperation, including
the need to work in areas of national priority, and a
broad policy for cost sharing of major initiatives;
- A detailed agenda designed to improve the access of U.S.
scientists to Japanese laboratories and S&T literature;
-
A three-part management structure that also provides a
forum to review each country's S&T policies;
- Detailed fall-back intellectual property rights
protection, and
- Security obligations.
These annexes were explained to the Japanese in Tokyo by a
delegation led by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Peter
de Vos on October 2-3, 1987. At the first negotiating
which you led with Mr. Hyodo, in midOctober in Washington,
the Japanese said they saw no need to revise the Agreement.
They did accede to the need for a stronger management
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