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Peru's Garcia Says To Push For Japan Free-Trade Pact

LIMA -(Dow Jones)- President Alan Garcia, in Japan on a state visit, said he will push for Peru and Japan to sign a free-trade pact.

Garcia's office said in a statement on Tuesday that Garcia had met with Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in Tokyo.

"We are going to push for a free trade agreement and for other treaties," Garcia said following the meeting.

Peru and Japan have held a series of negotiating sessions, although a high- level Peruvian government negotiator complained this week publicly that Japan wasn't ready to open its market.

Peru, which already has signed trade deals with the U.S., Canada and China, has also been negotiating free-trade pacts with Thailand and South Korea.

Garcia is visiting Japan and South Korea before heading to Singapore for a summit of the APEC forum.

-By Robert Kozak, Dow Jones Newswires;511-221-7050;peru@dowjones.com

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