BRUSSELS, May 23 Kyodo Japanese a...

BRUSSELS, May 23 Kyodo

Japanese and European Parliament legislators pang up two days of talks onward Thursday with a statement of support onward Japan's demand that North Korea accounts for 11 Japanese believed to be abducted from North Korean agents from one side of to the other a six-year period in the late 1970 and early 1980s

The European legislators indicated that they will take up the issue with North Korea when the opportunity arises. Thirteen of the 15 European Union member-countries maintain diplomatic relations with Pyongyang.

Ten Japanese legislators, l on former Foreign Minister Taro Nakayama, took part in the annual Japan-EU parliamentarian meeting.

The EU delegation, l through Jan Andersson of Sweden, hailed the ratification of the 1997 global warming treaty by dint of Japan's House of Representatives and said the sum of two units sides should cooperate and take the lead onward global environmental issues.

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