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Japan speaks highly of Hu's proposal on ties
A senior Japanese official said yesterday that Japan attaches importance to its relations with Asian countries, China in particular, and spoke highly of President Hu Jintao's proposal on promoting Sino-Japanese ties. "Only by keeping sound relations with other countries across the world, especially neighbouring countries, can Japan subsist, develop and maintain prosperity," said Yamazaki Taku, assistant to the Japanese prime minister, as quoted by a Foreign Ministry official.
"Japan will work with China to push the steady development of Japan-China relations in the long term," he said. President Hu put forward a five-point proposal for the improvement of relations between the two neighbours during his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on the sidelines of the Asia-Africa summit in Jakarta last month. The proposal emphasized dialogue, exchange and co-operation between the two countries, especially when bilateral ties are strained, and urges Japan to abide by the political documents which serve as the basis of their diplomatic ties and properly handle issues concerning history and Taiwan. "The five-point proposal is the principle and general aim for developing China-Japan relations, which shows China's sincerity in improving and promoting relations with Japan," Huang said. Sino-Japanese relations were recently stretched due to the actions of right-wing forces inside Japan which aimed to whitewash Japanese war crimes, especially those committed during Japan's invasion of China, and by Japan's support of "Taiwan independence." Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing and his Japanese counterpart Nobutaka Machimura
met in Kyoto on the sidelines of the 7th ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) Foreign
Ministers' Meeting.
Li said Hu's five-point policy was significant in setting the principles and
direction of the development of friendly and co-operative ties between the two
countries in the 21st century.
Referring to the recent tensions in Sino-Japanese relations, Li said that it
was important to correctly view the root cause of the difficulties, adding that
both sides should work together to follow up the three political documents
relating to history and Taiwan question.
Machimura said that Japan would adhere to the spirit of the proposal and make
joint efforts with China to push the development of Sino-Japanese relations.
The Japanese foreign minister said the three political documents were the
foundations to better dealing with the issues of history and Taiwan, adding that
the Japanese Government will insist on the "One-China" policy on the basis of
the three-document principle. |
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