TOKYO Japan's Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori will offer to resume some aid to India and Pakistan if the two countries agree to freeze nuclear tests when he visits the sub-continent later this month, Japanese media said on Wednesday.
However, a Foreign Ministry official said no such plans had been made and Japan's policy remained unchanged.
"We have no such ideas in mind," he said.
Tokyo imposed economic sanctions on New Delhi and Islamabad after the two countries carried out tit-for-tat nuclear tests two years ago.
Mori, scheduled to visit India, Pakistan and Bangladesh from August 19-26, will propose partially resuming yen loans in exchange for the freezing of nuclear tests, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun business daily said.
Previously, Tokyo had made the signing of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty by the countries a condition for lifting the sanctions, the newspaper said.
Both countries have yet to sign the treaty, saying they are trying to reach a national consensus on whether to do so.
(Reuter)