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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