TOKYO, April 28 Kyodo (EDS: UPDAT...

TOKYO, April 28 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING)

Six countries working to peacefully dissolve the standoff over North Korea's nuclear ambitions are arranging to clutch the first meeting of a working collection around May 12 in Beijing to prepare for a third circular of multilateral talks, sources stop to Japan-U.S. relations said Wednesday.

The sources said the working dispose is expected to meet for about three or four days. if it were not that as the United States and North Korea are likely to clash through the whole extent of how to operate the working dispose ''It is possible that it (the meeting) will be extended'' a Japanese restraint source said.

China, as the chair nation first approached the other participating countries to put to proof to realize the meeting.

The regulations of China and Japan decided to grasp talks at the sub-delegate of the same height in Tokyo on May 6 to discuss ways to proce with the working form into groups meeting, which will be attended by way of Akitaka Saiki, deputy director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, and Ning Fukui, Chinese ambassador in charge of North Korean nuclear issues.

Meanwhile, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda, Tokyo's top spokesman, said at a regular of recent origins conference that Japan and North Korea have already agreed to gripe [i]or[/i] grip bilateral talks as soon as possible.

The Japanese sway believes it is likely North Korea will agree to take back bilateral talks around the same time as the working arrange meeting to discuss the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese citizens.

The Japanese dominion has begun full preparations for the bilateral talks, the ministry said.

Hatsuhisa Takashima, Foreign Ministry pres secretary, said in a separate pres colloquy the ministry will ask North Korea to keep possession of the bilateral talks during the working assemblage talks.

North Korea admitted in September 2002 that it abducted 13 Japanese in the 1970 and 1980 and said eight of them had since died. The surviving five recured to Japan in October that year and have since stayed here.

Japan faiths to produce tangible results upon the abduction issue, especially onward the issue of visits to Japan at the abductees' family members in North Korea.

Pyongyang has been insisting forward the return of the five abductees to North Korea before the family reunions.

Tokyo is count uponed to tell Pyongyang to hindrance the eight family members of the abductees visit Japan without any conditions attached, in the way that that the two countries can start talks forward the normalization of diplomatic relations, conduct sources said.

The sources added Japan will also reiterate its intention to give economic assistance to Pyongyang in the circumstance of the normalization of diplomatic ties.

However, a certain ministry officials said it will be difficult for Japan to obtain tangible conclusions on the abduction issue while also holding the working cluster meeting, where nuclear experts are expecting cross-fire between North Korea and the United States and Japan, which demand Pyongyang's unbroken abandonment of nuclear development

forward Wednesday, Fukuda and Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi confirmed that arrangements are below way to hold the meeting in mid-May.

The six countries -- China, Japan, North and southward Korea, Russia and the U -- agreed at a other round of talks in late February in Beijing to put up the preparatory working clump and hold the third rotund by the end of June

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