The government denied a media report Wednesday that Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi is considering the creation of an agency outside her ministry to chiefly handle issues related to official development assistance.
At a regular morning news conference, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda flatly dismissed the report that appeared in the daily Sankei Shimbun’s morning edition, which said the government is studying the feasibility of establishing such an ODA agency.
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