Seoul and Tokyo agreed to hold the seventh round of their talks on trade curbs in December, South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said on Friday, APA reports citing Sputnik.
"The sides agreed to hold the seventh round of talks on Tokyo’s export policies during the third week of December … Before that, in Austria’s Vienna, a working meeting on the level of department heads will be held on 4 December", the Ministry’s spokesperson said during a briefing on the results of a bilateral meeting in Seoul.
Last week, South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said Seoul and Tokyo had agreed to coordinate their efforts for organizing a meeting between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the trilateral summit with China, that was scheduled for December.