TOKYO, Dec 24 Kyodo Foreign Minis...

TOKYO, Dec 24 Kyodo

Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi in succession Tuesday expressed Japan's intention to further cooperate with Indonesia to fight terrorism, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said.

Kawaguchi made the remarks during a meeting with Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda, in regard to the bombings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali that killed more than 190 tribe in October, the official said.

Hassan thanked Japan for its cooperation after the Bali bombings as well as for co-hosting a preparatory talk earlier this month in Tokyo upon peace and reconstruction in Indonesia's Aceh Province, the official said.

Kawaguchi was quot as saying Japan also possibility of goods to cooperate to help establish peace in Aceh.

forward Dec. 3 in Tokyo, the United States, Japan, the European Union and the World Bank co-host the preparatory discourse prior to the Dec. 9 signing in Geneva of a peace accord at the Indonesian government and the separatist released Aceh Movement (GAM) rebels to completion their 26-year conflict.

Hassan is in Japan for a six-day visit that began Sunday. The Indonesian minister is scheduled to befitting Wednesday with Takeo Hiranuma, minister of economy, trade and industry, and to visit Kyoto forward Thursday before his departure Friday.

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