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Yasuo Fukuda, AFPPD Chair, Elected as Japan's new Prime Minister

Left photo: Mr. Yasuo Fukuda (left), Chair of AFPPD, at the Executive Committee Meeting of AFPPD in Bangkok, Thailand with Mr. Sultan Aziz (right), Director of the Asia-Pacific Division of UNFPA. Right photo: Mr. Fukuda (left) with Ms. Thoraya Obaid (right), Executive Director of UNFPA, at the 25th anniversary celebration of AFPPD at UN Building in Bangkok, Thailand.

The Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development (AFPPD), with great pleasure, informs you that AFPPD Chair, Mr. Yasuo Fukuda, MP (Japan), is now the Prime Minister of Japan. He was elected as AFPPD Chair at the General Assembly of AFPPD in Jakarta, Indonesia on 2005. He is also the Chair of the Japanese Parliamentarians' Federation on Population (JPFP) and the Asian Population and Development Association (APDA). He recently chaired AFPPD/APDA-organized Afro-Asian Parliamentarians Dialogue on August 28-29 in Tokyo, Japan, and arranged African and Asian parliamentarians to visit Gunma prefecture to observe an environmentally friendly project of utilizing hot spring water to generate heating in houses of the prefecture.

His father, Mr. Takeo Fukuda, was also a prime minister of Japan and a founder of AFPPD. Before becoming prime minister, Mr. Yasuo Fukuda ran for the House of Representatives in 1990 and won a seat. He was elected Deputy Director of the Liberal Democratic Party in 1997 and became Chief Cabinet Secretary in 2000. He was the longest-serving Chief Cabinet Secretary in Japanese history, serving for three and half years under Prime Ministers Mr. Yoshiro Mori and Mr. Junichiro Koizumi. AFPPD and its parliamentary group members have extended their congratulations to him.