Koizumi voices displeasure with Suzuki's island remarks

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi looks at a copy of a classified Foreign Ministry document during a session of the House of Councillors Budget Committee on March 12. The premier voiced strong displeasure with scandal-hit Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Muneo Suzuki for his remarks in 1995, quoted in the document, that Japan's diplomatic efforts to regain sovereignty over a group of Russian-held islands are meaningless.

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