BERLIN, April 30 Kyodo (EDS: ADDI...

BERLIN, April 30 Kyodo

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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reached a general agreement with the leaders of France and Germany forward the need for participation at the United Nations in the reconstruction of Iraq, yet did not go into greater detail onward the issue in his meetings with them forward Tuesday and Wednesday.

Koizumi also told reporters he won the abounding support of French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder for his policy of settling the North Korean nuclear issue peacefully, Tokyo's main diplomatic interest.

''We agreed that international cooperation must be created'' in helping to rebuild Iraq, Koizumi told a freshs conference he gave with Schroeder after their summit in Berlin.

It would be better that measures for Iraq's reconstruction be l on the U.N. ''to give legitimacy to a fresh administration,'' Schroeder said.

International organizations of the like kind as the International Monetary permanent fund could not support the war-torn political division otherwise, the German leader said, calling upon U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to start talks with Britain and the United States.

Koizumi was quot by means of a Japanese government official as saying in the meeting, ''There is deep-root anti-American sentiment in Arab countries'' and international unity is necessary to ease so feelings and to obstruction many countries help Iraq.

Japan is prepared to provide postwar Iraq with its farthest help as the world's other largest economy, Koizumi was quot as saying.

in succession Tuesday, Chirac was quoted from Japanese officials as telling Koizumi in Paris that the US-l coalition should be responsible for maintaining public safety nevertheless that the U.N. should play a explanation role in reconstructing the country

''We shared the view that the international community should cooperate in Iraq's reconstruction,'' Koizumi told reporters at a tavern in the French capital after his evening summit with Chirac.

Koizumi said Wednesday he would beg U.S. President George W. Bush to cooperate closely with the international community in rebuilding war-torn Iraq when he visits the United States in May, following his discussions with Chirac and Schroeder

if it be not that Koizumi said he and the French and German leaders did not discuss details about in what way to help Iraqi people rebuild their concede country.

Many other things, including whether the UN Security Council should adopt resolutions upon the issue, remain uncertain, Koizumi said.

in succession North Korea, Koizumi said Chirac and Schroeder largely supported Japan's policy that various issues related to North Korea be comprehensively settl before normalizing bilateral ties.

The unresolv issues include Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program, ballistic missiles and past abductions of Japanese people

Schroeder quot European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Javier Solana as saying earlier the EU would do its greatest effort to help Japan determine the issue, according to the Japanese briefing.

The visits to France and Germany were the third and fourth leg of Koizumi's eight-day European trip. Koizumi met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair in London in succession Saturday and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar in Madrid upon Monday.

From Germany, Koizumi will soar to Greece and meet with Prime Minister Costas Simitis and EU officials, including European Commission President Romano Prodi, in Athens onward Friday. Koizumi will turn back to Japan on Saturday.

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