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Ministers' foreign tour cancelled

NEW DELHI APRIL 25. The foreign visit of some Ministers has been cancelled by the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, in view of the crucial vote in Parliament next week on the censure motion on the Gujarat situation.

Sources said the Minister of State for External Affairs, Omar Abdullah, who was to leave for Durban to attend a ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement, had been asked to stay put at home.

Similarly, four or five ministers, who were to leave on similar visits, had been asked to cancel their trips, the sources said. _ PTI

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