TOKYO, April 16 Kyodo Japanese Fo...

TOKYO, April 16 Kyodo

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi told a senior Indian official in a meeting Wednesday that forging stronger ties among China, India and Japan is crucial to enhancing peace and stability in Asia in the 21st hundred years Japanese officials said.

Kawaguchi was quot as telling Brajesh Mishra, principal secretary and national security adviser to Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, that the character of India has been increasing in Asia and that establishing friendly and reliable relations among the three countries will help as a basis for greater peace and stability in the region.

While welcoming Kawaguchi's remarks, Mishra noted Japan should not consider strains in India-Pakistan relations as an obstacle to improving bilateral ties between Japan and India, the officials said.

Kawaguchi told Mishra that she possibility of goods both India and Pakistan will make abiding they do not increase the tensions between them, they said.

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