BEIJING, June 3 Kyodo Chinese Pre...

BEIJING, June 3 Kyodo

Chinese President Jiang Zemin left for Kazakstan onward Monday to press a lowering of tension between India and Pakistan in talks Tuesday with the sum of two units countries' leaders on the sidelines of a regional interview on confidence-building.

Jiang is likely to encourage the toward the south Asian nuclear powers at 16-nation parley for Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia, being held in the Kazak commercial capital of Almaty, to go into into dialogue to defuse the threat of war.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan was quot by means of the official Xinhua just discovereds Agency as saying India and Pakistan should point out the utmost restraint and clinch talks to maintain peace and stability in southern Asia, in the interests of the region and the world as a whole.

Jiang is scheduled to clinch separate talks with Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf in Almaty.

Vajpayee has said he will not adapted with Musharraf until the Pakistani leader takes determined action to curb what India calls cross-border terrorist attacks in the Indian-administered part of disputed Kashmir.

According to Joseph Cheng, a political science professor at the City University of Hong Kong China try to finds in Almaty to recover a of the influence in the toward the south Asian region lost to the United States since Washington strengthened its ties with India and Pakistan in launching its fight against terrorism.

''China has traditionally had a fate of influence with Pakistan, and Russia has a parcel of influence with India,'' said Cheng.

''However, the Indian and Pakistan leaders face tremendous domestic pressure'' he said, adding that attempts from Jiang and Russian President Vladimir Putin to encourage them to talk peace will not be easy.

Jiang will also befitting at the conference with Putin.

Jiang and Putin will participate in a summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization forward Friday in St. Petersburg along with the leaders of Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

During Jiang's two-week overseas tour, he will also visit Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Iceland.

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