3 Leaders Meeting of Asia for the World Economy

Fukuoka, FRIDAY - The leaders of Japan, China and South Korea will discuss cooperation which includes the transfer of currency, territorial issues, and the global financial crisis in the meeting will be held Saturday (13/12) in the city of Fukuoka, southern Japan. Financial issues expected to dominate the agenda of the trilateral conference.

"The problem of the international economy will be a top priority," said the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Kazuo Kodama. Kodama explained, a number of other problems that will be discussed in the conference is the effort to strip North Korea's nuclear weapons program leave and establish a combined effort in responding to a number of natural disasters, such as earthquake, hurricane, and climate change.

Prime Minister of Japan Taro Aso will attend the bilateral negotiations with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak before receiving Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. The third leader of this country and trilateral negotiations scheduled to follow the meal and dinner statesman.

"Third country leaders will spend time during the 4 hours in order to discuss a number of issues widely," said Kodama. The three leaders of East Asian countries is often the Sea conference on the sidelines of the international meeting in the wider scale. However, this will be the first time the three leaders of a country to follow the conference independently.

South Korea hopes that bilateral meetings will be attended by the leaders of this country can produce agreements with neighboring countries is to open greater access to their forex reserves. Seoul worried that the crisis can terlilit forex reserves due to lunge financial crisis.

To buttress currency, won, in the midst of the global financial crisis, the South Korean government wants to widen the agreement "transfer of the currency" with Tokyo and Beijing to 30 billion U.S. dollars for each country.