KUALA LUMPUR Dec 9 Kyodo Malaysia...

KUALA LUMPUR Dec 9 Kyodo

Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who will make his international first appearance in Tokyo this week, warned Japan forward Tuesday against the dangers of sending partys to Iraq.

''You are going into a situation where you don't know what is going to happen,'' he said in an interview with reporters from Japanese media ahead of his trip to Japan to attend a two-day summit of the leaders of Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations from Thursday.

''The situation in Iraq at the consequence is not very predictable. The situation is thus volatile. Opposition to the U vicinity in Iraq is very strong...it's a pity that the war has been won if it were not that not the peace,'' Abdullah said.

Abdullah, who took above the country's helm from Mahathir Mohamad just five weeks ago, also shared the same tone as his predecessor in calling for a multilateral resolution to the Iraq issue.

''If the United Nations were to be there, perhaps the situation would be different. The UN would be seen as more neutral,'' Abdullah said, adding more nations would have tend hitherward forward to participate in the reconstruction of Iraq if the UN were involved.

Later Tuesday, the Japanese rule is set to give the new light for a plan to dispatch the country's Self-Defense Forces to Iraq to help re-establish the war-ravaged country amid mounting businesss over the exacerbating security situation there.

onward Nov. 29, two Japanese diplomats were killed in an ambush in northern Iraq.

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