P.M. BRIEFING : Japan Vows Aid to Ailing Peru
Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu told Peruvian President-elect Alberto Fujimori today he would send an aid mission and advisers to help the Andean country’s economic reconstruction, Fujimori said.
Kaifu made the pledge during a meeting with Fujimori, the first ethnic Japanese to become a head of state outside Japan.
“Mr. Kaifu clearly understood our economic problems,” Fujimori told reporters after meeting the premier at his residence. “As one means, he has promised me to send an economic mission.”
Japanese Foreign Ministry officials said Kaifu also promised to send economic advisers to Peru as soon as possible after Fujimori’s inauguration later this month.
The International Monetary Fund and other international lending organizations suspended aid to Peru in 1988 because the incumbent president limited foreign debt servicing to a fraction of foreign earnings.
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