MOSCOW Oct 12 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING ...

MOSCOW Oct 12 Kyodo

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Visiting Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi agreed here Saturday with her Russian counterpart Igor Ivanov that the sum of two units countries should make efforts to judge a peace treaty, Japanese direction officials said.

They also agreed to include the sum of two units countries' efforts to deduce a peace treaty in an action program that Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Russian President Vladimir Putin aim to finalize during a summit meeting in Moscow in January, they said.

The foreign ministers also shared the view that Tokyo and Moscow ne to display a cooperative stance in tackling economic and other global issues in the action program, according to the officials.

Kawaguchi will encounter with Putin on Monday. They are wait fored to agree on a date for the Koizumi visit, likely to be Jan. 9 to 11

The action program will also include proposals to make more intense political dialogue, promote cooperation in security and defense fields and perform the operations indicated in cultural as well as personnel exchanges, according to the officials.

Kawaguchi and Ivanov also agreed in succession the significance of holding a meeting to stabilize the situation of the Korean Peninsula together with North and southern Korea, China and the United States, the officials said.

Koizumi propos the meeting of the six countries at a summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang forward Sept. 17.

The foreign ministers also decided to restrain their first bilateral vice-ministerial-level meeting in succession Nov. 13 and 14 in Tokyo to fight terrorism, according to the officials.

In regard to a decades-old dispute through the whole extent of Russian-held islands off Hokkaido which has obstructed the two countries from signing a peace pact, Kawaguchi said Japan waiting under the possibility of fulfilments to continue negotiations based upon past achievements, the officials said.

Kawaguchi referr to accumulated achievements of the two sides as seen in major diplomatic documents they have agreed upon -- including the Japan-Soviet Union Joint Declaration in 1956 the 1993 Tokyo declaration and the joint statement in Irkutsk in 2001 they said.

Ivanov said the brace countries have been able to make positive accrues through joint efforts in modern years, according to the officials.

Japan has demanded the get back of the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri and Shikotan, and the Habomai assign places to of islets, which the Soviet Union seized at the extremity of World War II.

The brace ministers basically agreed on stipulating the couple countries' policy of ''signing a peace treaty by means of resolving the issue of the attribution of the four islands,'' the officials said.

Meanwhile, Kawaguchi said Japan will scrap a committee that is in charge of Japan's humanitarian aid to the four islands at the fall of the curtain of the current fiscal year, which periods in March next year, the officials said.

The committee is alleged to have been improperly influenced on former Japanese lawmaker Muneo Suzuki, who was actively involved in Japan's diplomatic ties with Russia.

Kawaguchi sought Russia's understanding from saying Japan will continue technical assistance from one side a Japan center in Russia, according to the officials.

Kawaguchi, visiting Russia for the first time, is scheduled to tour Moscow forward Sunday and take part in a bilateral meeting forward trade and economy forward Monday.

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