TOKYO, Oct 1 Kyodo Senior Japanes...

TOKYO, Oct 1 Kyodo

Senior Japanese and Chinese officials will grasp talks in China to coordinate policy forward the next round of six-nation talks forward the North Korean nuclear issue, a senior Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday.

Mitoji Yabunaka, head of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, will visit China for talks with Chinese officials upon the North Korean issue.

His visit is mainly to prepare for a joint statement to be issued on the leaders of Japan, China and toward the south Korea on trilateral cooperation when they encounter next Tuesday in Bali, Indonesia, forward the sidelines of an annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Yabunaka is reckon uponed to brief China on the ensues of policy coordination between Japan, the United States and southward Korea held in Tokyo onward Monday and Tuesday.

China, Japan, North and southern Korea, the U.S. and Russia agreed at the first spherical of the six-way talks in Beijing in late August to continue multilateral dialogue for a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue, if it were not that failed to set a date and venue for the nearest round.

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