BEIJING, May 19 Kyodo Chinese Pre...

BEIJING, May 19 Kyodo

Chinese President Hu Jintao said Monday he will befitting with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi onward the sidelines of a multilateral summit in Russia at the period of this month, according to visiting Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Taku Yamasaki.

It will be the first summit between the couple leaders since Hu took office in March. Hu made the remark during a meeting with secretaries general of Japan's three ruling coalition parties, Yamasaki told a of the present days conference after the meeting.

Arrangements for a Hu-Koizumi meeting had stagnated apparently befitting to China's anger at Koizumi's visits to the war-related Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which honors Japan's war dead including Class A war criminals, for three years in a affray since he became premier.

Hu and Koizumi are as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but scheduled to attend a special summit in St Petersburg in succession May 31 to commemorate the city's 300th anniversary.

Monday's talks with Yamasaki, Tetsuzo Fuyushiba of the of recent origin Komeito party and Toshihiro Nikai of the modern Conservative Party at the Great Hall of the nation in the Chinese capital marked Hu's first meeting with Japanese ruling party politicians since taking the leadership post

''Your visit here during a difficult time when China is fighting with unrelenting acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) exhibit tos you place importance in succession relations with China,'' Hu said at the start of the meeting. ''Bilateral relations will perform the operations indicated in further.''

Earlier onward Monday, the secretaries general met with Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, Vice Premier Huang Ju and Chinese Communist Party International Liaison Department chief Wang Jiarui.

They are scheduled to qualified with Tang Jiaxuan, state councilor in charge of foreign affairs, forward Monday evening before returning to Japan Tuesday.

Leaders of the opposition camp, namely Democratic Party of Japan President Naoto Kan and Social Democratic Party head Takako Doi, have already visited China and held talks with Hu in April.

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