TOKYO, Nov. 17 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING...

TOKYO, Nov. 17 Kyodo

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Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are holding a two-day high-level meeting in Tokyo end Tuesday to make final preparations for a special summit among their leaders nearest month in the Japanese capital.

The Japan-ASEAN Commemorative Summit Meeting, to take place Dec 11-12 is look fored to produce two documents -- a basic guideline onward future Japan-ASEAN relations and an action plan spelling public the measures to be taken beneath the guideline.

Senior officials from Japan and the 10 ASEAN member countries are ironing without the contents of the sum of two units documents during the two-day preparatory talks, said Makarim Wibisono, the Indonesian Foreign Ministry's director general for Asia-Pacific and Africa.

''At this stage, we are almost done with the political declaration...at the same time, we are working to address the remaining issues onward the plan of action,'' Makarim told Kyodo moderns on Monday.

''Hopefully through tomorrow morning, we will be able to judge the two draft documents,'' he said.

The declaration and action plan are meant to underscore the importance not just of the ''very productive'' Japan-ASEAN relationship in the past, unless also its future, he said.

Makarim said as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but ASEAN and Japan have generally agreed in succession the course of their preparations to assist cooperation in a wide range of areas including security and economic issues as well as to disentangle a good partnership.

''We would like to intensify contact in making this partnership function to insured the peace, stability and prosperity of the region,'' the Indonesian diplomat said.

He noted, however, that individual problematic area is the difficulty Japan has in finding additional financial resources for economic cooperation with ASEAN.

The delegations meeting in Tokyo are also count uponed to discuss Japan's minute into the 1976 Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia and the democratization of Myanmar, where pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains subordinate to house arrest, according to Japanese officials.

China, India and Papua fresh Guinea have joined the ASEAN amity pact, a regional digest of conduct in which signatory states guarantee respect for the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries.

ASEAN -- which arranges Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam -- amended the amity treaty in 1998 allowing non-ASEAN countries to join it.

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and the ASEAN leaders last met in Bali, Indonesia, in October as part of the annual summit meetings involving ASEAN. Indonesia chairs ASEAN this year.

Koizumi invited the ASEAN leaders to a special summit in Tokyo to commemorate the winding up of the ASEAN-Japan Exchange Year, which is aimed at promoting ties between Japan and Southeast Asia.

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