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China-Japan agreement highlights(AP)Updated: 2007-04-12 08:44
Highlights of agreements between Japan and China after a meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who is in Tokyo on the first visit by a Chinese leader since 2000. The two countries agreed to: - Study ways to jointly develop disputed resources in the East China Sea. - Work together to promote energy-saving technologies and develop energy resources. - Work on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. - Strengthen cooperation in defense policy, including reciprocal visits by warships. - Work toward a nuclear weapons-free Korean peninsula. - Speed up Japan's cleanup of chemical weapons left in China from the World War II era. - Face up to history. - Arrange frequent high-level government contacts, including a possible visit by Abe to China later this year and by Chinese President Hu Jintao next year. - Hold periodic government meetings to discuss economic, trade and finance issues. - Work together to promote intellectual property rights. |
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