Miyazawa axes Summers' plea for speedy deliverance of 3 pc growt

Miyazawa axes Summers' plea for speedy deliverance of 3 pc growt

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa (R) says Japan rejected a suggestion by U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers to set a sharply higher economic growth target for fiscal 2000 than the officially avowed real 1 percent growth. Miyazawa attends a news conference along with Bank of Japan Governor Masaru Hayami (L) after a meeting of financial chiefs from the Group of Seven (G-7) economic powers, held in downtown Tokyo on Jan. 22. Both co-chaired the G-7 meeting.

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