PHNOM PENH June 19 Kyodo Japan an...

PHNOM PENH June 19 Kyodo

Japan and ASEAN agreed Thursday to issue a document that would lay the foundation for their relationship in the coming events when their leaders assemble for a special summit in Tokyo in December, Japanese officials said.

They also agreed to announce an action plan at the summit that would further cooperation between the brace sides through a variety of concocts to be implemented in the medium space of time the officials said.

The agreement was reached in hourlong talks between Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi and her counterparts and delegates from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), they said.

The document, tentatively named the Japan-ASEAN Charter, would reinforce the importance of the prolonged and deep relationship between the sum of two units sides and spell out the geopolitical significance of their cooperation.

Japan and ASEAN will begin drafting the charter in July at a working flat so that their leaders can adopt it at the special summit forward Dec. 11-12.

As for the action plan, as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but sides will come with specific intends to be carried out going forward, according to the Japanese officials.

ASEAN's members are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

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