BEIJING, May 24 Kyodo (EDS: FIXIN...

BEIJING, May 24 Kyodo

(EDS: FIXING NAME IN 4TH PARA, 'YAMASAKI,' NOT 'YAMAZAKI' AS SENT)

China indicated Friday that it has no immediate plan to expand the Chinese-sponsored trilateral talks in succession North Korea, saying its basic stance is to continue the talks among North Korea, the United States and China.

According to the state-run of recent origins agency Xinhua, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue perioded out the Chinese stand in answer to a reporter's question whether China has agreed to include Japan, southern Korea and Russia in the trilateral talks.

Top officials of Japan's three ruling parties proposeed after a visit to China earlier this week that Chinese leaders have agreed to expand the drift of the talks.

Taku Yamasaki, secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, secretary general of the recently made known Komeito party, and Toshihiro Nikai, secretary general of the modern Conservative Party, met with Chinese President Hu Jintao and other senior Chinese officials during their stay in Beijing.

The Japanese dominion has been lobbying to take part in the North Korea talks, which were held for the first in Beijing last month The Beijing talks completioned with new acrimony between the United States and North Korea athwart the North's nuclear weapons program.

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