PARIS, May 3 (Xinhuanet) -- A spokesman for the Japanese Foreign Ministry said here on Tuesday that Japan had not made decision on siting the revolutionary International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in France.

    "We have not made any sort of policy or decision on this issue," said Hatsuhisa Takashima, who is here with the visiting JapaneseForeign Minister Nobutaka Machimuraat.

    "Our position is to have a discussion on that subject with the French," said Takashima, adding he wanted to "bring about a mutually acceptable solution between the European Union and Japan".

    The remarks came after Luxembourg, which holds the rotating EU presidency, announced Monday that Japan agreed to discuss the siteof the multi-billion-dollar plant in Europe. Designed to generate inexhaustible supplies of electricity, the plant is however not expected to be run before 2050.

    The European Union, China and Russia back the ITER to be built in the southern French town of Cadarache, while the United States and South Korea support Japan's offer to build the ITER in Rokkasho-mura, a northern Japanese village near the Pacific Ocean.Enditem