& çâÌæÚUæð´ ·¤è ¥ôÚU Îð¹Ùæ ÁæÚUè ÚU¹ð´ ¥ÍæüÌ ¥ÂÙð ÜÿØ ÂÚU ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´Ð ãæÚU Ù ×æÙð´, €UØô´ç·¤ ·¤æ× ·¤ÚUÙð âð ¥æÂ·¤ô ©gðàØ ·¤è Âýæç# ãôÌè ãñ ¥õÚU ÁèßÙ ·¤æ ¹æÜèÂÙ ÎêÚU ãôÌæ ãñÐ ÖÜð ãè ÁèßÙ ×ð´ ç·¤ÌÙè Öè ·¤çÆÙæ§ü €UØô´ Ù ¥æ°, çÁ™ææâæ ¥õÚU ©ˆâæã ÕÙæ° ÚU¹ð´Ð ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´, ÜÿØ ã×ðàææ ¥æÂ·Ô¤ Âæâ ãôÌð ãñ´ çÁ‹ãð´ ÂæÙð ·Ô¤ çÜ° ÂýØæâ ¥æÂ ·¤Öè Öè àæéM¤ ·¤ÚU â·¤Ìð ãñ´Ð

Telecom row with US may overshadow summit
WASHINGTON, July 7: US Senate leaders have stepped up pressure on Japan to settle a bitter telecommunications dispute. warning that the feud could overshadow this month's summit of Group of Eight (G8) nations, reports Reuters.
In what has become the thorniest trade issue between the world’s two biggest economies. Washington has demanded that telecoms giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) 9432.T Immediately slash the fees charged to other carriers for access to its local phone lines. Japan has offered more modest cuts over a longer time period.
"We seek progress in Japan's commitment to reduce substantially interconnection rates.” Senate Finance Committee Chairman William Roth, a Delaware Republican, and the panel’s ranking Democrat. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, said in a letter released on Thursday.
The senators said settlement of the dispute was "critical to ensure a successful Okinawa G8 economic summit." according to the letter, sent to Japanese Ambassador to the United States Shunji Yanai I
Talks on the NTT dispute are set to begin on July 10. and both sides have said they would like to resolve it before Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori meets US President Bill Clinton on the sidelines of the July 21 -23 G8 sununit.
Washington has demanded a
41 per cent cut immediately in the fees NTT charges rivals' for access to local lines. Tokyo has offered a 22.5 per cent cut over four years.
The Yomluri Shimbun newspaper said the two sides were likely to agree that NTT cut the rates by around 28 per cent by the end of 2002 and to agree to discuss further cuts "in light of NTT's business performance".
An official at the Posts and Telecommunications Ministry denied the report.
US trade officials had no comment, saying all proposals would be discussed In detail starting July 10. If progress is made. US Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky is likely to travel to Japan to Join the negotiations.
NTT, 53 per cent owned by the government, has argued that cutting the rates as deeply and as fast as Washington wanted would squeeze profits and threaten Jobs at the telecoms giant.
Failure to settle the spat could be embarrassing for Mori, who wants to make Information Technology the centre
file a complaint with the World Trade Organisation by the end of July if Tokyo refuses to cut the fees.
The Group of Eight unites Russia. Britain. France. Germany. Italy and Canada as well as Japan and the United States.