BEIJING, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister Wu Dawei will visit Japan to meet with envoys of the five other countries involved in the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said here Thursday.

    "He will meet with delegation heads of other parties and discuss the issues concerning the six-party talks," spokesman Liu Jianchao said.

    While Wu is in Tokyo, a conference on security in northeast Asia will be held in the Japanese capital from April 9 to 11, with participants from China, Japan, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Russia, the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the United States.

    But Liu said Wu had no plans to attend the forum.

    He said the conference involved unofficial consultations on security cooperation and dialogue in northeast Asia. "Officials from China's foreign and defense ministries and researchers will attend the conference in a private capacity."

    The spokesman said China was supportive of the conference, which aimed to improve understanding and trust and promote dialogue on regional security. Enditem