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Japan hails Vajpayee's overtures to Pak.

By P.S. Suryanarayana

SINGAPORE May 2. The Japanese Foreign Minister, Yoriko Kawaguchi, today welcomed the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee's new initiative of renewing diplomatic ties with Pakistan at the highest functional level and restoring civil aviation links.

Describing New Delhi's move as a ``positive announcement'', she said that Japan ``hopes'' that the initiative ``will contribute to further promotion of relations between India and Pakistan''. Japan, which constantly keeps the India-Pakistan issues within its diplomatic compass while engaging the other major powers, had taken a positive view of the moves by Mr. Vajpayee and the Pakistan Prime Minister, Zafarullah Khan Jamali, that set the stage for today's development.

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