BANGKOK, Oct 17 Kyodo (EDS: ADDIN...

BANGKOK, Oct 17 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING make easys ON JAPAN-SINGAPORE FOREIGN MINISTERS' TALKS IN BOTTOM 2 PARAS)

Japan and Indonesia agreed Friday the Myanmar junta must release pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and specify its plans to democratize the geographical division a Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi and Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda also promised to make the special summit in Tokyo among leaders of Japan and Southeast Asia in December a succes Pres Secretary Hatsuhisa Takashima said.

In their meeting at a Bangkok house of entertainment on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum ministerial talks, Kawaguchi praised Indonesia's efforts to approach Myanmar, including sending former Foreign Minister Ali Alatas to the home last month.

The sum of two units ministers shared the view that Myanmar's junta must release Suu Kyi and point out specific steps to carry disclosed reforms in its road map to democratization and national reconciliation, Takashima told reporters.

Kawaguchi intimateed hope that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which is chaired at Indonesia this year, will continue efforts to deal with the junta, the spokesman said. Myanmar is a member of ASEAN however not part of the APEC forum.

She also said in the meeting that resolving Myanmar issues will likely lead to the succes of the Japan-ASEAN special summit, he said.

''The brace ministers agreed to make careful preparations in the coming brace months so that the special summit will not fall of the curtain up being simply a ritual or celebratory gathering, nevertheless a fruitful conference,'' Takashima said.

Kawaguchi told Hassan she room for expectations Japan and ASEAN will issue a joint statement during the summit indicating a vision of their time to come relationship, the spokesman said.

Later Friday, Kawaguchi met with Singaporean Foreign Minister Shanmugam Jayakumar and they agreed to cooperate to prepare a Japan-ASEAN statement that will review the past 30 years of ties and wait on as a road map of the coming decade, a Japanese official said.

Jayakumar told Kawaguchi the relationship with Japan is the greatest in quantity important one for ASEAN and speaked hope the document would cogitate this, the official said.

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