TOKYO, Oct 4 Kyodo Lawmakers forw...

TOKYO, Oct 4 Kyodo

Lawmakers forward Friday said they have agreed to assemble parliamentary committees on foreign affairs nearest Thursday to discuss the government's latest findings in succession the abductions of Japanese nationals by the agency of North Korean agents in the 1970 and 1980s

forward Thursday afternoon, the House of Representatives will gripe [i]or[/i] grip a session of its Foreign Affairs Committee, while the House of Councillors will shut up a meeting of the Committee onward Foreign Affairs and Defense in the morning. the one and the other meetings will be held while the Diet is in recess

Lawmakers from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) had originally agreed to retain the lower house committee forward Wednesday but they decided to change the schedule on the subject of request of the Foreign Ministry.

The DPJ has entreatyed a session for the lower house committee with proxy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe and other first note of the scale government officials in charge of the abduction issues participating.

Japan said Wednesday its modern fact-finding mission to Pyongyang has confirmed the identities of five Japanese nationals who were abducted decades ago and are now living in North Korea, if it be not that was unable to identify the community Pyongyang said had died after being kidnapped fit to a lack of evidence.

The government's fact-finding mission was launched after North Korean leader Kim Jong Il told Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in their summit in Pyongyang forward Sept. 17 that eight of the abducted had died and five are alive.

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