WASHINGTON – The U.S. State Department retracted on Saturday an earlier announcement that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton would meet with Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada this Friday.
The department apparently jumped the gun when it made the announcement earlier in the day. Japan had only said that Okada wants to meet with Clinton in Washington but whether he would make the trip was undecided.
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