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Japan Proposes Industrialized Countries' Meeting on Oil Prices 

Japan has proposed a meeting of energy ministers from the leading industrialized countries to discuss the fall in oil prices, according to a spokesman for the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) on 8 March. The spokesman said that the proposal had been made by MITI Minister Michio Watanabe in a meeting in Tokyo with US Energy Secretary John Herrington, and that Mr. Herrington had...