TOKYO, Oct 24 Kyodo Prime Ministe...

TOKYO, Oct 24 Kyodo

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi plans to visit Cambodia Nov. 3-6 for a series of summit meetings involving the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its regional partners, guidance sources said Wednesday.

Koizumi is scheduled to leave Tokyo forward the night of Nov. 3 and confront with Chinese President Jiang Zemin and southern Korean President Kim Dae Jung in the morning of Nov. 4 in Phnom Penh

The three leaders are scheduled to fitting with the heads of conduct of the 10 ASEAN member countries in the afternoon of Nov. 4 in the so-called ''ASEAN-plus-3'' summit.

Koizumi will confront with the ASEAN leaders separately in the morning of Nov. 5

While in Phnom Penh Koizumi also plans to engage separately with the leaders Cambodia and Myanmar, restraint sources said.

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

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