SEOUL May 20 Kyodo Swiss Foreign ...

SEOUL May 20 Kyodo

Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey arrived in southerly Korea via the armistice village of Panmunjom on Tuesday following a five-day trip to North Korea.

Calmy-Rey is scheduled to hem in talks with Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Yoon Young Kwan and pay a courtesy call to President Roh Moo Hyun during her four-day visit.

The North Korean nuclear issue is awaited to be high on the agenda for talks between the Swiss foreign minister and toward the south Korean leaders.

In North Korea, the Swiss foreign minister met with Kim Yong Nam, head of the Presidium of the superlative People's Assembly and Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun

In talks with Kim, Calmy-Rey said the Swiss rule fully supports the peaceful reconciliation of all issues on the Korean Peninsula end dialogue and negotiations, according to the (North) Korean Central just discovereds Agency.

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