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Clinton's meeting with Japanese counterpart postponed

Lahore : Pakistan | about 1 month ago

Sunday, November 01, 2009

WASHINGTON: A meeting between US Secretary of State Hillary ClintonHillary Clinton and her Japanese counterpart planned for Friday has been postponed, the State Department announced.

A revised schedule of Clinton's activities made public late Saturday dropped any mention of the meeting with Katsuya Okada, which had been previously scheduled in Washington for November 6 at 11:30 am (1530 GMT).

No formal explanation was given. Clinton's talks with Okada were to come ahead of US President Barack ObamaBarack Obama's first official visit to Japan on November 12-13 and amid a row over the planned relocation of a controversial US base in Japan.

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio HatoyamaYukio Hatoyama, who took power in September, has pledged to review a 2006 agreement to relocate the US Marine Corps Futenma Air Base from an urban to a coastal part of the southern island of Okinawa.

Hatoyama has suggested the base -- which has angered residents because of aircraft noise and friction with US servicemen -- could be moved off the island altogether, a move Washington has strongly opposed.

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