An agreement was signed on 28th June between the ITER Parties to build ITER in Cadarache, France.

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The parties signed this declaration, with its attachment.

The Japanese Mininster of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Mr. Nariaki Nakayama, visited the Garching Joint Work Site on his way back from the previous day's site declaration signature.

He paid tribute to the hard work of the people of Rokkkasho-mura and Aomori prefecture to get ITER sited in Japan. But he also recognised that there was a very strong commitment from Europe and France to siting in Cadarache. It was not in the interests of mankind for Japan to stand in the way of the essential progress in fusion constructing ITER would bring. Nor was it worth sacrificing the high quaility six-party technical partnership built up with such care over the preceding years. He had therefore very reluctantly decided that Japan should let the project be built in France, and he made the promise that Japan would continue to provide its strong support to the construction and operation in Cadarache.