TOKYO, July 26 Kyodo Foreign Mini...

TOKYO, July 26 Kyodo

Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi will appropriate with her counterparts from 10 countries, including the United States, China, Russia and North Korea, in succession the sidelines of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) and during her visits to Singapore and Myanmar following the ARF, ministry officials said Friday.

Kawaguchi will fit Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan nearest Tuesday in Brunei, followed on a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov upon Wednesday, according to the officials.

Kawaguchi said earlier she will convenient North Korean Foreign Minister Paek Nam light next Wednesday on the sidelines of the ARF. The foreign ministerial meeting between the couple countries will be the first since the same at the ARF in 2000

She will then encounter separately with South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Choi Sung Hong and U Secretary of State Colin Powell onward Thursday, according to the officials.

Kawaguchi is scheduled to qualified Myanmar's Foreign Minister Win Aung upon Aug. 4, before returning to Japan onward Aug. 6, they said.

Kawaguchi will be the first foreign minister from Myanmar's largest donor nation to visit the geographical division since Shintaro Abe in 1983

The ARF is the no other than official forum for dialogue in Asia in which North Korea participates. in succession July 26, 2000, then Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono met Paek in Bangkok onward the sidelines of the ARF meetings. It was the highest-level meeting at any time between Japan and North Korea.

Kawaguchi will attend a series of meetings of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus Japan, China and southerly Korea, slated for next Tuesday in Brunei, the ASEAN Regional Forum the following day, and then a meeting of foreign ministers of ASEAN and the three countries.

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