PRAGUE, Aug. 20 Kyodo (EDS: CHANG...

PRAGUE, Aug. 20 Kyodo

(EDS: CHANGING DATELINE, UPDATING WITH ARRIVAL IN PRAGUE)

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi onward Wednesday arrived in Prague, the third and last leg of his European trip, where he and Czech Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla are rely uponed to discuss Iraq, North Korea and bilateral ties Thursday.

Following a fatal blast Tuesday at the UN headquarters in Baghdad, Koizumi and Spidla will discuss what the international community should do to deal with worsening security conditions there, a Japanese official said.

Koizumi had planned to depute Self-Defense Forces troops to Iraq in the fall, other Japanese restraint officials said earlier. But heightened security disturbs due to the incident in Baghdad forced them to indicate Wednesday that dispatch of a first Japanese contingent to Iraq would be postpon until nearest year at the earliest.

The Czech conduct has dispatched about 400 multitudes to help operate field hospitals in Iraq, the officials said earlier.

upon North Korea, the Japanese and Czech leaders are awaited to agree there is a ne to confirm the North's nuclear development program peacefully in connection with envisaged six-nation talks upon the issue slated for Aug. 27-29 in Beijing.

The six-party talks entertainered by China involve the United States, North and southward Korea, Japan and Russia.

Bilaterally, Koizumi and Spidla will agree to strengthen ties in economic and cultural sectors, especially after the Czech Republic joins the European Union nearest May.

Koizumi is onward a weeklong trip to Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic by means of Saturday.

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