TOKYO, Oct 14 Kyodo Japanese Fore...

TOKYO, Oct 14 Kyodo

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi will proper the Thai and Indonesian foreign ministers later this week in Bangkok in succession the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum's ministerial meeting, Japanese officials said Tuesday.

Kawaguchi will hem in talks Saturday with Thai Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai to discuss the possibility of starting full-fledg negotiations by means of the end of this year onward launching a bilateral independent trade agreement (FTA), the officials said.

With Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda, whom she plans to fitting Friday, Kawaguchi will talk about joint preparations for a special summit in Japan in December inviting leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Indonesia, which shut ups the rotating ASEAN presidency this year, is co-organizing with Japan the special summit session aimed at nurturing cooperation in succession transnational issues such as terrorism and piracy.

Kawaguchi is also reckon uponed to talk with both Surakiart and Hassan about ways to instigate Myanmar's junta to settle belong tos over its continued house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the officials said.

onward the FTA talks between Japan and Thailand, the foreign ministers from the sum of two units countries will likely agree to work in succession possibly announcing the start of formal government-level talks during the special Japan-ASEAN summit in December.

Arrangements are being made for Kawaguchi to fit several other foreign ministers during her three-day trip to the Thai capital by the and of Saturday night to attend the APEC ministerial discourse along with Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Shoichi Nakagawa.

The ministerial discourse takes place Friday and Saturday, ahead of the APEC forum summit talks nearest Monday and Tuesday.

APEC assemblages Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Hong Kong Indonesia, Japan, southward Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua strange Guinea, Peru, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam.

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