'Japan's stand on aid to India unchanged'

TOKYO, JUNE 2. Japan's Foreign Ministry today denied a domestic news report saying the world's largest provider of foreign aid has decided to resume extending assistance to India.

Japan suspended the `new' Official Development Assistance (ODA) to India after it tested a nuclear explosive device in May 1998. ``Our stance has not changed. We will continue to monitor India's willingness to sign the CTBT (Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty). Depending on the development, we will consider resuming aid to India,'' a Foreign Ministry official told Reuters.

He was responding to an article published in today's edition of theJapan times, a domestic English daily, which claimed the Government was considering resuming large-scale economic aid to India this summer.

- Reuters

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