TOKYO, Aug. 30 Kyodo Foreign Mini...

TOKYO, Aug. 30 Kyodo

Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi will make a three-day trip to China starting race 8 to discuss bilateral ties, regional circumstances and global issues with Chinese management leaders, the Foreign Ministry said Friday.

Kawaguchi is making the trip at the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan, with whom she is scheduled to imprison talks during her stay in Beijing, the ministry said. She is also awaited to meet President Jiang Zemin.

onward bilateral ties, the two countries will likely talk about in what manner to go about developing their relationship in the latter half of this year, which marks the 30th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations, the ministry said.

Kawaguchi is also look forward toed to talk with her landlords about the situation forward the Korean Peninsula and the ongoing salvage of an unidentified ship that sank in the East China Sea after exchanging fire with Japan Coast Guard patrol boats last December, ministry officials said.

Japan believes the ship was North Korean and upon a spying or drug-trafficking mission not upon the Japanese coast. North Korea has denied the allegations.

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