The Japanese government will propose this plan at various international conferences slated for early next month in Singapore. Joseph Ralston, on February 16 expressed strong concern over Japan's move to seek cuts in the host-nation budget for US military forces stationed in Japan. We are not begging for mercy and will bear what we have to bear. The proposal was accompanied with the PRC's condition that unless negotiations for this new treaty started soon, negotiations for the cut-off treaty would be delayed. The report said that US representative Robert Grey rejected the proposal and the Geneva Conference on Disarmament is now more likely to be deadlocked.
Japan is also ready to reject the proposal.
India and other non-aligned nations support the PRC proposal in principle and Russia expressed its support for the proposal. The official also said that the Australian government would discuss regional and global security, DPRK-Australia bilateral relations, and the DPRK's domestic issues at the talks. The official said the Australian government will also ask the DPRK to abandon its missile test. Conventions for readers and a list of acronyms and abbreviations are available to all recipients. We invite you to reply to today's report, and we welcome commentary or papers for distribution to the network.