MALAYSIAN PREMIER ABDUL TUNKU RAHAMAN WHO FINISHED HIS INFORMAL SCHEDULE AS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ASIAN YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION TO SEE THE SEVENTH TOURNAMENT HELD IN TOKYO BY MAY FIFTH VISITED JAPANESE PREMIER EISAKU SATO AT HIS OFFICIAL RESIDENCE TODAY TO DISCUSS MALAYSIAN ISSUE WHICH JAPAN HAS BEEN TRYING TO MEDIATE THE DISPUTE BETWEEN MALAYSIA AND INDONESIA. PREMIER RAHMAN ACCOMPANIED BY MALAYSIAN AMBASSADOR SEYED SAHAH ARRIVED AT THE OFFICIAL RESIDENCE OF PREMIER SATO AND WAS WELCOMED BY SATO AT THE ENTRANCE AND THEN THEY PROCEED TO THE RECEPTION ROOM WHERE PREMIER RAHMAN WAS GREETED BY MR. SHOJIRO KAWASHIMA, VICE PREMIER WHO HAD BEEN IN DJAKARTA TO PARTICIPATE IN THE BANDUNG CELEBRATION AS JAPANESE REPRESENTATIVE AND MET INDONESIAN PRESIDENT SUKARUNO TO SOUND POSSIBILITY TO MAKE A TOKYO CONFERENCE AMONG INDONESIA, MALAYSIA, THAILAND AND JAPAN TO MEDIATE MALAYSIAN ISSUE. LATER, MR. K. OHONO, FORMER JAPANESE AMBASSADOR TO LONDON AND FOREIGN MINISTER ETSUSABURO SHIINA JOINED IN THE RECEPTION TO WELCOME PREMIER RAHMAN AND CONTINUED THEIR TALKS. THROUGH PRESIDENT SUKARUNO ANNOUNCED THAT HE IS UNABLE TO COME TO TOKYO TO MEET RAHMAN DUE TO DOMESTIC PROBLEM, HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO COME UP TO TOKYO TO EARLY JUNE TO SEE PREMIER RAHMAN AND JAPANESE PREMIER SATO TO DISCUSS THE MALAYSIAN ISSUE. PREMIER RAHMAN IS SCHEDULED TO LEAVE TOKYO ON NEXT MONDAY FOR KUALA LUMPUR SO FURTHER DISCUSSION SHALL BE CONTINUED AMONG JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER, VICE-PRESIDENT KAWASHIMA AND PREMIER SATO, MEANWHILE, ANOTHER MISSION HEADED BY MR. TOKUMA UTSUNOMIYA, A LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS NOW IN DJAKARTA AND CONFER WITH PRESIDENT SUKARUNO AND HE IS REPORTING TO PREMIER SATO FROM DJAKARTA EVERY DAY SO PREMIER RAHMAN IS WELL INFORMED ABOUT PROGRESS OF MEDIATION NEGOTIATION BETWEEN JAPAN AND INDONESIA WHILE HE IS IN TOKYO.

This is the first official top level conference between Malaysia and Japan to discuss about Malaysian issue to be mediated by Japan.