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This is an archive article published on February 5, 1999

Japan may ease sanctions on India

TOKYO, FEB 4: Japan plans to ease its anti-nuclear sanctions on India by resuming financing through bodies such as the International Mone...

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TOKYO, FEB 4: Japan plans to ease its anti-nuclear sanctions on India by resuming financing through bodies such as the International Monetary Fund, a report said today.

Japan and other donor nations including the United States imposed sanctions on both India and Pakistan after the two countries carried out nuclear tests in May last year.

But the Yomiuri Shimbun said the possibility that India might sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty CTBT as early as this September behind the policy shift.

A working-level meeting of the Group of Eight G-8 nations in Tokyo on February 11 to discuss nuclear developments in India and Pakistan would probably decide to resume financing, said the newspaper.

The US State Department said earlier this week that an American delegation led by Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott had been encouraged by weekend talks with Indian officials on the nuclear proliferation issue.

 

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