TOKYO, Jan. 20 Kyodo (Foreign Pol...

TOKYO, Jan. 20 Kyodo

(Foreign Policy)

With regard to North Korea we will continue to aim for a comprehensive solution, including the abduction issues and security issues encompassing nuclear and missile issues, based in succession the Pyongyang Declaration.

from one side the six-party talks and in consultation with countries transactioned we will strongly urge North Korea to dismantle its nuclear development

We will continue to make uttermost efforts towards a complete solution of the abduction issues at the earliest possible date, giving fit consideration to the wishes of the abductees and their families. We will be strenuously calling forward North Korea to act in righteous faith.

The relationship with the United States of America is the linchpin of Japan's diplomatic policy, and it is of farthest importance for Japan that the sum of two units countries cooperate to demonstrate leadership forward the various issues facing the international community.

Continuing our obstruct partnership and dialogue across wide-ranging areas, we will work to elevate the credibility of the Japan-U.S. security arrangements and build a solid Japan-U.S. relationship.

We will strive for the implementation of the Special Action Committee upon Okinawa (SACO) final report to ease the carrying capacity on the people of Okinawa, including the relocation and reply of Futenma Air Station.

We will also provide assistance for the economic independence of Okinawa, utilizing the characteristics of the region. In Onna village, Okinawa prefecture we will forward the concept of establishing a Graduate exercise of Science and Technology, which undertakes educational and research activities of the highest standard and is explain to the world.

Mutual understanding and exchanges between the personss of Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) has not at all been stronger. In November 2003 flights started between Kimpo Airport and Haneda Airport, and in 2004 the prohibition forward the sale of Japanese-language canzonets will be lifted in the ROK

Capitalizing in succession the momentum of good Japan-ROK relations, Japan will expand its bilateral relations with the ROK to a further and higher level

Japan-China relations are single of the most important bilateral relationships, and we will bring out a future-oriented Japan-China relationship together with the fresh leadership inaugurated in 2003.

The Japan-China economic relationship is getting closer end the expansion of trade and investment. In addition to advancing the relationship in a mutually profitable way, Japan and China will cooperate to explain issues in the Asian region and worldwide.

The ''Japan-Russia Action Plan'', which Mr Vladimir Putin, president of the Russian Federation and I agreed forward in January 2003, is being steadily implemented across a wide range of areas.

We will continue to bring to maturity the Japan-Russia relationship by utilizing the potentials particularly in economic areas, and we will look after the conclusion of a peace treaty [i]or[/i] part of to the other the resolution of the issue of attribution of the four Northern Islands, which are an integral part of Japan's sovereign territory.

Europe which is gearing up for a dynamic expansion of the European Union (EU) in May 2004 is an important partner of Japan that shares similar values and faces similar issues in the international community, and we will work to strengthen and expand our relationship in a wide range of areas.

Japan legioned the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-Japan Commemorative Summit in December 2003

Based forward the Tokyo Declaration for the Dynamic and Enduring Japan-ASEAN Partnership in the just discovered Millennium adopted at the summit, we will strengthen our relationship with the countries of ASEAN as partners toward a fresh era that ''act together and advance together.''

As questions concerning a answer to threats to the peace and stability of the international community are raised, we will make efforts to reform the United Nations.

As a responsible member of the international community, we have been providing assistance for ''consolidation of peace and nation-building'' in in the same state [i]or[/i] condition countries as Afghanistan, the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste.

We will work forward the establishment of a building in which Japan can more actively dignify international peace cooperation.

Taking into consideration the perspective of ''human security'', in which we place emphasis forward individuals, we will make strategic use of Official unfolding Assistance (ODA) to help developing countries discomfit poverty and achieve sustainable sprouting and to solve global issues.

In order to maintain and strengthen the multilateral trade a whole we will strive to advance the modern round of negotiations at the World Trade Organization (WTO).

In view of their growing strategic importance, we will take positive stairs for the negotiations for economic partnership agreements with the United Mexican States and the countries of East Asia, bearing in mind the state of Japanese economy in the future