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of hostilities, commensurate with her
national resources.
The Japanese
concept of an Indo-China
Rehabilitation Plan was designed to
provide immediate assistance for South
Vietnam and the neighbouring countries
of Laos and Cambodia. This would be
followed by measures to promote the
development of Asia in the 1970s.
Concrete measures had not yet been
worked out. At the Ministerial
Conference Mr. Aichi had referred to
estimates made on the assumption that
Japanese economy would continue to
grow so as to provide a G.N.P. of $500
billion by 1980. Japanese aid to
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Asia in 1968 had totalled $5/million.
Mr. Fukuda, the Defence Minister, had
told the Asian Development Bank at
Sydney that Japan would double this
in five years. However, Japanese
resources alone would not be adequate
to achieve the full development of
Asia. The assistance other
countries would be essential and it
was hoped that United Kingdom would
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continue to give assistance/r. Stewatt
found Mr. Aichi's statement both
encouraging and important.
We too
were members of the Asian Development
Bank. We hoped that the Bank would
not concentrate on South East Asia to
the exclusion of Iadla and Lakistan.
Michi
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