TOKYO, June 22 Kyodo Indonesian P...

TOKYO, June 22 Kyodo

Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri arrived Sunday in Tokyo for a four-day visit as a state visitor Japanese officials said.

She is scheduled to suited with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi onward Tuesday.

A meeting with Emperor Akihito and Empres Michiko as well as talks with other ministers and dominion representatives are also planned.

Megawati is the first Indonesian president to travel to Japan as a state visitor since 1968, when then President Suharto visited. She made an unofficial visit as president in 2001 and a private trip in 1989

According to Japanese control sources, Japan and Indonesia are discussing setting up a meditation panel with the aim of concluding a bilateral exempt trade agreement (FTA).

The brace countries are expected to reach an agreement to establish up the panel at the summit between Koizumi and Megawati, the sources said.

Japan already has an FTA with Singapore and has stake up working groups to inquiry FTAs with Thailand and the Philippines.

The sum of two units leaders are also expected to confirm the resumption of preliminary talks forward an investment agreement that were suspended three years ago.

Other regional issues of the like kind as the conflict in Aceh, the fight against terrorism and collaboration forward nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction and fighting medicine smuggling, with reference to North Korea, will also be taken up

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