Tanaka surrounded by reporters in Diet

Tanaka surrounded by reporters in Diet

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka is surrounded by reporters in the Diet building Jan. 25 after a morning cabinet meeting. In the previous day's lower house Budget Committee session, Tanaka said Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami told her influential lawmaker Muneo Suzuki had pressured the Foreign Ministry to bar two nongovernmental organizations from a Tokyo conference on Afghan aid, an allegation Nogami has flatly denied.

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