LUXEMBOURG, May 2 (Xinhuanet) -- The 14th European Union (EU)-Japan summit started here in Luxembourg on Monday morning.

    Visiting Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and senior officials from the EU side, including Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, whose country is holding the EU presidency, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, attended the summit.

    Sources from the Japanese side told Xinhua that there are two major topics on the agenda of the summit, one is to negotiate the construction site for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), and the other is that Koizumi will express Japan'sconcern over the EU's will to lift arms embargo against China.

    Japan is strongly against EU's lifting arms embargo on China.

    ITER is the experimental step between today's studies of plasmaphysics and tomorrow's electricity-producing fusion power plants. The international project involves China, the EU, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the United States.

    The United States and South Korea support Japan's offer to build ITER in Rokkasho-mura, a northern Japanese village near the Pacific Ocean, while China and Russia back the EU bid for the southern French town of Cadarache.

    Sources from the Japanese sides revealed that Japan might soften its stance but demand for more participation in the ITER project.

    Other topics on the summit agenda will be sustainable development, the reform of the United Nations, and foreign policy dossiers.

    Monday's summit is expected to end by midday.

    The EU-Japan summit is held once a year. Enditem