Japan's Saiki to go to Beijing Fri. for talks on N. Korea+

TOKYO, Nov. 6 Kyodo - Japan's top nuclear negotiator Akitaka Saiki will visit Beijing on Friday and Saturday to discuss arrangements for the resumption of multilateral talks on
North Korea's denuclearization with Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei, a Japanese Foreign Ministry senior official said Thursday.

Saiki, director general of the ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau,
and Wu, chair of the six-party talks, are also expected to exchange views on
the details of how to verify the nuclear programs declared by North Korea under
a six-way agreement.
Apart from the North Korean nuclear issue, Saiki is also likely to urge the
Chinese side to get to the bottom of food-poisoning cases in Japan involving
pesticide-tainted dumplings imported from China.
He will also press for progress in negotiations toward concluding an accord for
a basic agreement reached earlier to jointly develop gas fields in the disputed
East China Sea, the official said on condition of anonymity.
The six countries involved in the talks -- North and South Korea, China, Japan,
Russia and the United States -- are expected to hold a heads of delegation
meeting in Beijing later this month to put in writing a recent agreement
between Washington and Pyongyang on a mechanism to verify information provided
by the North in June on its nuclear programs.