インドシナ総合開発フォーラムに対する新たな意義づけ

──日本の外交当事者の認識を中心に──

抄録

Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa proposed the Forum for Comprehensive Development of Indochina （FCDI） as a scheme for the reconstruction and the development of Indochina during his visit to Southeast Asian countries in January 1993. Not a few preceding studies point out its unique character.

According to the literature review, FCDI has four implications: 1 ） it set up the development of the whole region of Indochina; 2 ） it set up not only the development of the industrial infrastructure but also the “comprehensive development” including the human resource development and planning capacity of development programs; 3 ） it drew attention of the international society to the development of Indochina; and 4 ） it provided a “forum” to discuss the development of Indochina.

Nevertheless, the literature lacks sufficient studies on the contexts and processes, in and through which the aforementioned implications had come to be highly valued. Moreover, the preceding studies mention FCDI merely in some parts of their bodies but none of them deals with it as the main theme of the study.

Therefore, this research traces the historical process from the foundation to the abortion of FCDI, based on diplomatic documents of Japan and news paper articles. More precisely, it aims to clarify what the main purpose was and to propose a new implication of FCDI through the analysis of the recognition among Japanese diplomats.

The results of the research are as follows. Firstly, the implementation of development programs for the sake of the whole region of Indochina and the provision of a “forum” to discuss the development of the region had been taken into consideration by Japanese diplomats since around the time when Miyazawa visited Southeast Asian countries in January 1993. These implications had become core principles of FCDI. Secondly, so-called comprehensive development had come to be highly valued in the context of the “development of the whole region.” In other words, comprehensive development was a “means” to develop the whole region of Indochina. Meanwhile, Japan’s diplomats did not value the implication of FCDI to draw attention of the international society. However, Japanese diplomats gradually became less and less able to ignore this implication in order to demonstrate Japan’s initiative for the regional development of Indochina to the international community.

Among the four implications, Japanese diplomats regarded the development of the whole region of Indochina as the main purpose of FCDI. As for a new implication of FCDI, this paper concludes that FCDI was the scheme that enabled Japan’s positive initiative for the regional development of Indochina without alarming the international community.