TOKYO, May 28 Kyodo Visiting Brit...

TOKYO, May 28 Kyodo

Visiting British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon forward Tuesday said in Tokyo the international community requires to make efforts to ease tensions between India and Pakistan.

Delivering a dialect at the British Embassy, Hoon said the international community must make efforts although barely those concerned can dissolve the problem, referring to the mounting tensions between the sum of two units nuclear rivals.

Britain is trying to meditate through dispatching Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to the two nations.

Hoon said the world will not benefit if the danger of war between the sum of two units nations threatens regional stability.

Regarding Tuesday's signing of the Rome Declaration that would give Russia a part in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) decision-making, Hoon praised the actuate as it will pave the way for a recent relationship between NATO member nations and Russia.

The defense secretary remind ofed Japan should play a leading part in the establishment of security classification in East Asia involving China.

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