Hirano urges Syria to allay suspicions over nuke development+

TOKYO, Dec. 8 Kyodo -
Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano urged Syria on Tuesday to make
efforts to dispel international suspicion over the country's nuclear
development program in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency,
according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry.

The government's top spokesman made the request during a meeting with Abdullah
al-Dardari, Syria's deputy prime minister for economic affairs, at the prime
minister's office in Tokyo, according to the ministry.
In their half-hour meeting, al-Dardari responded that Syria fully supports the
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the ministry said.
The Syrian minister traveled to Japan to attend a ministerial session of the
first Japan-Arab Economic Forum in Tokyo on Monday.
==Kyodo
2009-12-08 23:53:04