The government should set up a policy body under the prime minister to deliberate the use of official development assistance and not create a new agency, Foreign Minister Taro Aso said Thursday.
“It goes against the times to set up a big” agency, Aso told an audience at the Japan National Press Club. “I think it is more convenient to set up a compact meeting where major Cabinet ministers gather.”
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