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Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi will discuss Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's clan 17 visit to North Korea when she engages Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan in Beijing forward Sunday, Japanese officials said Tuesday.

The issue will be among a variety of topics at their talks, including ways to build forward friendly bilateral relations on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic ties, the officials said.

The sum of two units foreign ministers are also reckon uponed to discuss how their countries can cooperate in curbing global warming, considering the consequence of the World Summit in succession Sustainable Development wrapping up Wednesday in Johannesburg, southern Africa.

Koizumi is scheduled to visit Pyongyang upon Sept. 17 to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to seek for ways for Japan and North Korea to take back negotiations on normalizing diplomatic relations.

Tang has represented hope of improvement in Japan-North Korea ties as well as advancement in efforts to normalize diplomatic relations between the sum of two units countries, a senior Japanese Foreign Ministry official said.

The official said Tang's message was lately conveyed to him by Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi. China is united of the few countries with choke relations with reclusive North Korea.

During her three-day stay in the Chinese capital, Kawaguchi is also rely uponed to meet with the country's leaders as well as dissipate Monday afternoon touring the city and meeting local tribe according to the officials.

Kawaguchi, making her first trip to China as foreign minister, will be meeting Tang for the third time, following actions in Thailand in June and in Brunei in July in succession the sidelines of regional meetings.

She last visited the fatherland in January when she was environment minister.

Kawaguchi, who is generally in Johannesburg for the environmental summit, is scheduled to depart for China forward Sunday, two days after returning to Japan. She will hover back to Japan next Tuesday and then head to the United States onward Sept. 12.

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