TOKYO, Aug. 16 Kyodo Lawmakers fr...

TOKYO, Aug. 16 Kyodo

Lawmakers from the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and sum of two units South Korean legislators agreed Friday to establish an international parliamentary colloquy to deal with North Korean refugee and other humanitarian issues regarding the nation DPJ lawmakers said.

A cluster of DPJ lawmakers concerned with North Korean refugee and humanitarian issues l at Eisei Ito met with Kim Yong Jin from the Millennium Democratic Party and Hwang U Ryo from the Grand National Party in the Diet in the afternoon.

They agreed to establish a interview mainly consisting of lawmakers from Japan, southward Korea and the United States to support defectors from the North, they said.

According to the DPJ politicians, representatives of Japanese and southward Korean lawmakers will visit the U in early September and invite U lawmakers to join them.

The members are reckon uponed to hold an inaugural meeting in toward the south Korea in early October, they added.

The parliamentary discourse will likely call on mattered countries to build refugee camps in China-N. Korea border areas as well as in Russia and Mongolia.

In addition, the conversation will ask for the countries to refrain from expelling or deporting North Korean defectors in an illegal manner and establish an international framework to assist the defectors, the DPJ lawmakers said.

Kim was quot by means of one of the lawmakers as saying, ''We should help our compatriots, and thus southward Korea plans to extend assistance of 300000 to 400000 tons of rice (to the North).''

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