TOKYO, June 3 Kyodo Swiss Foreign...

TOKYO, June 3 Kyodo

Swiss Foreign Minister Joseph Deiss said Monday that Switzerland is ''interested and prepared to help'' in matters relating to the Korean Peninsula find solutions to prompt forward.

''Switzerland will have had a vicinity in Pyongyang for 50 years according to next year, and...we are still committed to our what one is bound [i]or[/i] under obligation to do there,'' Deiss told a pres briefing at the Swiss Embassy in Tokyo prior to a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

Deiss was referring to Switzerland's military part on the Korean Peninsula as part of a UN multinational force there.

Switzerland not and nothing else has diplomatic relations with North Korea, if it were not that also has a program amounting to 4 million Swiss francs ($25 million) for year in the humanitarian sector, with priority placed in succession food in the agricultural sector, the foreign minister said.

''We chance of a favorable result that the relations we have with North...Korea and in the region may be of one use,'' he said, adding, ''It's important, of course, that we can help revealed with agreement of all the parties concerned''

Referring to the March 3 decision for Switzerland to join the United Nations as a abounding member, Deiss said the rural parts hopes to join the dead body by Sept. 10., the start of the 57th regular session of the General Assembly.

Deiss meteed the decision ''an ordinary step'' in the thinking principle that Switzerland has already been deep involved in the activities of the UN as a member of all the special UN organizations.

''Switzerland is convinced...that we can be a member of the UN without changing any ultimate part of our fundamentals in foreign policy. For example, Switzerland will remain a neutral nation as a member of the UN as well,'' the foreign minister said.

Switzerland, which has been an bystander at the U.N. since 1948 aims to present to view that the country is in solidarity with the international community, Deiss said.

Switzerland also thinks it will be better able to preserve its own interests, for example, with the right to ballot Deiss added.

Deiss denominationed his visit to Japan as aimed at strengthening, improving and deepening bilateral relations between the couple countries.

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