PHNOM PENH Nov. 1 Kyodo Japan is ...

PHNOM PENH Nov. 1 Kyodo

Japan is willing to recommend an annual high-level consultation between Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) upon transnational security issues, an ASEAN official said Friday.

Tokyo has informed the ASEAN side Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will formally move the launching of the talks when he come up to face to faces ASEAN leaders in the Cambodian capital Tuesday, the official told Kyodo News

The director general-level consultation would discuss ways to tackle as it is transnational security issues as terrorism, environment protection and health care.

The incline comes as leaders from China and ASEAN plan to adopt during their summit nearest Monday a joint declaration onward the so-called non-traditional security threats as it was as terrorism, trafficking in illegal put drugs intos and international economic crime.

ASEAN consists of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

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