China, Japan resume talks on disputed gas drilling (AP) Updated: 2005-09-30 20:55
China and Japan exchanged opinion
during a new round of consultations on energy in the East China Sea
in Tokyo, as Japan once again asked China to stop developing gas fields there.
Cui Tiangai, right, director of the Asia
Bureau at China's Foreign Ministry, speaks as Wu Guihui, center, deputy
director of China's National Development and Reform Committee's Resources
Bureau, looks on as they start talks with Japanese counterparts over
disputed undersea gas fields in Tokyo Friday, Sept. 30, 2005.
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The two countries have been feuding over claims to undersea gas deposits in
the area and the delineation of their exclusive economic zones there. The clash
is part of the overall troubled relationship between Japan and China.
"We will ask China to provide necessary information. We will ask them to stop
gas development on their own, and stop drilling if they are going ahead with
drilling, without giving us any information," Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka
Machimura said.
Machimura said that Japan is also ready to discuss jointly developing
reserves with China.
"We agree on the principle to make (the East China Sea) not into the ocean of
conflict, but into the ocean of cooperation, so we will discuss how we could
jointly develop reserves," he said.
The Japanese delegation was led by Kenichiro Sasae, director of the Asia and
Oceania Bureau at Japan's Foreign Ministry. China's chief negotiator was Cui
Tiankai, head of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Asian Affairs Department.
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