Indonesia would send a special envoy to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), in an effort to ask the country to hold bilaterally discussions with South Korea about the nuclear crisis on the Korea Peninsular in Indonesia this year, the Indonesian foreign minister said Wednesday.

Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said that Indonesia would send senior diplomat, Nana Sutresna, former Indonesian ambassador to the United Kingdom, to the DPRK in the near future.

"We will send a special envoy, We still look for the time,

hopefully in the next few days," he told Xinhua at the State Palace here.

Last month, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Indonesia had met the request of South Korea to facilitate the meeting of the defense ministers of South Korea and the DPRK.

According ot Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono, Indonesia will host the meeting of the two countries later this year. Indonesia supported the efforts to realize peace on the Korea Peninsula, he added.

Juwono said that the planned-meeting would be the third channel for the settlement of the nuclear crisis on the Korea Peninsula.

The six parties talks involving China, South Korea, DPRK, Japan, the United Stated and Russia, have been an official channel to dissolve the problem, and the meeting of members of separated families of the two countries between 1953 to 1954 has been another informal channel.

South Korean Defense Minister Yoon Kwang Ung said earlier that Indonesia is of strategic importance in playing a role to bring the two countries to peace talks.

Indonesia has played important roles in efforts to mitigate tension on the peninsula, and has sent its special envoys to encouraage the two parties to settle the conflict by peace talks.

Source: Xinhua