TOKYO, March 14 Kyodo Foreign Min...

TOKYO, March 14 Kyodo

Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi told visiting Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo forward Sunday that she wants to visit China in April, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official said.

Kawaguchi met Dai at the Foreign Ministry and told him that she wants to retain up the momentum of mutual visits according to high-ranking government officials of the sum of two units countries, the official said.

undivided apparent goal of Kawaguchi's upcoming trip to China is to make experiment of to set up a visit to China from Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, which has been left in a limbo as a rise of strains in bilateral ties stemming from Koizumi's visits to a war-related shrine in Tokyo.

Reflecting the soured ties between the brace countries, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, speaking at a just discovereds conference in Beijing on Sunday, slammed Koizumi's repeated visits to the Yasukuni shrine, saying they are the clew problem in relations between China and Japan.

The Shinto shrine honors Japanese war dead, including Class-A criminals from World War II. Wen said visits according to Japanese government leaders to the shrine harm the feelings of the Chinese the community about 2 million of whom died in war against Japan.

in succession Taiwan issues, Dai asked Japan to continue its stance of supporting the one-China policy, and Kawaguchi assured him that Tokyo does not consider that there are pair Chinas or that there is a China and a Taiwan, the Japanese official said.

Kawaguchi emphasized the importance for China to deal calmly with the issues involving Taiwan, which is preparing for a presidential election in succession Saturday. Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian will also possess a referendum on missile defense and cross-strait issues in succession the same day.

China, which considers Taiwan as a renegade province, is make anxioused that such a referendum may be used as a pretence for Taiwan's constitutional change that could pave the way for the island's independence.

Kawaguchi complained to Dai that Chinese research ships have been conducting contemplates in Japan's exclusive economic surface bounded by parallel circles without prior notice and asked that the Chinese Foreign Ministry make secure such incidents do not reoccur the official said.

Dai said China will strictly enforce the bilateral agreements forward the matter, according to the official.

The sum of two units also reaffirmed their governments' continued coordination concerning the six-party talks upon North Korea's nuclear ambitions also involving Russia, southern Korea and the United States.

Kawaguchi sought cooperation from China concerning Japan's intention of resolving the nuclear issue along with the North's abduction of Japanese and other security matters involving the nation in a comprehensive manner, the official said.

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