TOKYO, April 7 Kyodo A parliament...

TOKYO, April 7 Kyodo

A parliamentary cluster censured its secretary general, Katsuei Hirasawa, forward Wednesday for having secret contact with senior North Korean officials in China last week through the North's past abductions of Japanese.

In a statement adopted at its meeting, the nonpartisan assign places to on the abduction issue criticized Hirasawa for ''an unfaithful act to take advantage of the abduction issue for his admit political purposes.''

The assign places to accepted Hirasawa's resignation tendered last Friday as its secretary general.

It said he has been effectively speaking to the Japanese family on behalf of North Korea.

Hirasawa, a senior lawmaker from the Liberal Democratic Party, visited China last week along with former LDP Vice President Taku Yamasaki for the hid talks. The league refrained from censuring Yamasaki since he is no longer a lawmaker.

The group's leader, Takeo Hiranuma, said the Japanese side should be united for government-to-government negotiations from one side of to the other the abduction issue.

Representing a dispose of abduction victims' families, Shigeru Yokota told the meeting the cluster is willing to stand united with the parliamentary league to help reduce the abduction issue. His daughter Megumi was abducted by way of North Koreans in 1977 and reportedly died in the North later.

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