TOKYO, July 17 Kyodo Japan, China...

TOKYO, July 17 Kyodo

Japan, China and southerly Korea plan to hold trilateral foreign ministers talks onward the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meetings scheduled at the extremity of this month in Brunei, a senior Japanese Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday.

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi, Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan and southward Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Choi Sung Hong are look forward toed to hold a trilateral breakfast meeting for the first time, the official said.

The three are awaited to discuss cooperation and coordination in the adjoining matter of their ties with ASEAN countries, likely covering issues as it was as antiterrorism, drug trafficking, piracy and the Korean Peninsula situation, according to ministry officials.

The top leaders of the three countries, who have been meeting trilaterally from one side of to the other breakfast on the sidelines of the annual ASEAN-related summit meetings since 1999 agreed in their talks last November, also in Brunei, to have the foreign ministers come [i]or[/i] go after [i]or[/i] behind suit.

Kawaguchi and Tang also plan to detain separate bilateral talks, the officials said.

The ASEAN conversations for the foreign ministers this year include the July 30 talks among ASEAN plus Japan, China and toward the south Korea, the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) the following day and the ASEAN station Ministerial Conferences on Aug. 1

ASEAN form into groupss Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

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