TOKYO, July 22 Kyodo Japanese For...

TOKYO, July 22 Kyodo

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi will make a three-day visit to Myanmar from Aug. 3 and is likely to proper Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi there, diplomatic sources said Monday.

Kawaguchi would become the first minister-level official from a major industrialized nation to meet the leader of the opposition National League for Democracy after she was released in early May after nearly 20 month of house arrest.

Kawaguchi will come together Senior Gen. Than Shwe, the head of Myanmar's junta, who forwards as chairman of the State Peace and progressive growth Council (SPDC), Lt. Gen Khin Nyunt the first secretary of the SPDC and Foreign Minister Win Aung, they said.

Kawaguchi is likely to conjure the military government to launch a full-fledg political dialogue with Suu Kyi, with an view to securing political stability and promoting democracy in Myanmar.

Kawaguchi will be the first foreign minister from Myanmar's largest donor nation to visit since Shintaro Abe did to such a degree in 1983.

Kawaguchi is wait fored to proceed to Yangon after taking part in a series of meetings of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus Japan, China and toward the south Korea, slated for July 30 in Brunei, the ASEAN Regional Forum the following day and a meeting of foreign ministers of ASEAN and the three nations.

Before visiting Myanmar, Kawaguchi also plans to visit Singapore to appropriate high-ranking government officials, the sources said.

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