Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said Tuesday that she might visit India later this week, while en route to the Middle East, to urge the country's leaders not to escalate tensions with Pakistan over Kashmir.
"I am considering visiting India by leaving for Israel one day early," Kawaguchi told a regular news conference in the morning. She is expected to leave Japan on Thursday, visiting Israel and the Palestinian Authority on Saturday and Sunday.
Both Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his foreign minister have phoned India and Pakistan repeatedly to urge peace, and Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seiken Sugiura was also sent to the region to try and ease tensions between the two nuclear rivals.