He also met with external affairs minister Krishna, national security advisor M.K.Narayanan and other members of the cabinet of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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The Liberal Party's single member in the cabinet, the home-affairs minister, Takeshi Noda, may well resign in protest.
On Wednesday, the State Minister for CabinetAffairs, Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah al-Sabah, said the government hoped that the new law would be the "foundation for resolving the Bidun problem".
On January 5th, Hong Sa Duk, a cabinetminister for political affairs, compared the transition team with the powerful executive arm of the military junta led by Chun Doo Hwan in 1980.