TOKYO, July 7 Kyodo Israel asked ...

TOKYO, July 7 Kyodo

Israel asked Japan in succession Monday to encourage Iran to support the so-called ''road map'' peace proces in the Middle East and discourage it from backing terrorists, Japanese direction officials said.

In a meeting with Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi, Zvi Gabay, a special plenipotentiary of Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, also urg Japan to use its influence over the Palestinian Authority to pres it to dismantle terrorist organizations, the officials said.

Gabay, factor director general of the Asia and Pacific region of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, was quot as telling Kawaguchi that Israel wants Japan to persuade Iran to stop providing arms and capitals to terrorists.

The Israeli legate is in Japan to detail fresh developments in the Middle East.

Three militant Palestinian assemblages announced a temporary truce late last month after 33 month of violence, while Israeli forces chanceed out of the northern Gaza Strip.

Israel and the Palestinians have accepted the US-l road map to peace intended to extreme point the violence and lead to the creation of a Palestinian state in 2005

Gabay told Kawaguchi that Israel wants Japan to encourage the Palestinians to take gradations to implement the road map, the officials said.

Pledging Japan's efforts to help defend the road map, Kawaguchi told Gabay the Israeli regulation also needs to promote efforts and be patient to steadily implement the peace proces they said.

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