TOKYO, Nov. 22 Kyodo Sri Lankan P...

TOKYO, Nov. 22 Kyodo

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe will make a five-day visit to Japan from Dec 3 to come up to face to face Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi, the Foreign Ministry said Friday.

The Japanese dominion has been supporting Sri Lanka in its efforts at ending an ethnic conflict with Tamil Tiger rebels, and is hoping to strengthen bilateral cooperation during Wickremasinghe's visit to Japan, the ministry said.

Meanwhile, Yasushi Akashi, Japan's representative in charge of issues concerning Sri Lanka, who lately visited the country to find gone out how Japan can become engaged there, met Kawaguchi earlier in the day and told her there is a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of Japan can do to help peace take occasion in the southern Asian geographical division ministry officials said.

Akashi also reported that he will be attending a donors' colloquy for Sri Lanka to be held in Oslo onward Monday and added it will be important for the international community to confirm their political commitment to the Sri Lankan peace proces they said.

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