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China, Japan begin repairing ties at Asian summit
AFP - Saturday, October 30
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HANOI (AFP) - – China and Japan began repairing a major rift at an Asian summit Friday, agreeing to improve ties and resume talks on a disputed gas field, but there was confusion over plans for their leaders to meet.
Asia's two big powers have been embroiled in their worst diplomatic feud in years, sparked by a territorial dispute that has escalated into protests, scrapped meetings and allegations China is freezing exports of vital minerals.
All eyes at the East Asian Summit in Vietnam's capital are on the sparring match and whether the rival prime ministers, China's Wen Jiabao and Japan's Naoto Kan, will hold highly anticipated direct talks.
Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara said Friday after a meeting with his China counterpart, which yielded agreement on key issues, that the two-way summit would "probably take place in Hanoi".
But the summit was plunged into confusion as the Japanese delegation later announced the meeting was on, and then shortly afterwards retracted the statement without giving any details.
Japanese broadcaster NHK earlier cited government sources as saying the pair would meet some time after 1200 GMT. Chinese officials, while not ruling out the possibility, could not confirm any arrangements had been made.
But in a sign of the thawing mood, Kan walked up to Wen and the pair shook hands before a luncheon between the 10-member Southeast Asian bloc and its three East Asian partners, a photographer saw.
Maehara said he and his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi had agreed to improve ties and resume negotiations over the development of a disputed gas field in the East China Sea.
"We agreed that we will make efforts to improve the ties between Japan and China and press forward the strategic, mutually beneficial relationship. The Chinese side also agreed on it," Maehara told reporters.
"We also agreed that we will resume the negotiations on the gas field development in the East China Sea," he said.
Japan has previously called for an early resumption of the stalled talks over the disputed gas field -- called Shirakaba by Japan and Chunxiao by China -- which have been a casualty of the simmering territorial row.
The neighbours have been feuding since the September 8 arrest of a Chinese trawler captain after a collision with Japanese coastguard vessels near a disputed island chain in the resource-rich East China Sea.
There was also progress Friday on another Asian faultline as Wen said he would visit India this year and stressed there was "enough space in the world" for both the rival neighbours to prosper despite a backdrop of frosty ties.
Border disputes, a short war in 1962 and the presence in India of Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama have all contributed to an atmosphere of suspicion between India and China.
India is also watchful of China's growing presence in the region, including investments in ports in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
But Wen told his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the summit that the two nations should "steadily ensure friendship" and "increase mutual trust in politics".
"There is enough space in the world for China and India to develop themselves at the same time, and there are enough sectors for China and India to cooperate," he said.
The 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries met Friday with their dialogue partners before Saturday's 16-nation East Asia Summit which US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will also attend.
Prospects for Kan and Wen to meet were clouded when talks scheduled for Friday among economy ministers from China, Japan and South Korea were scrapped.
Japanese media reports said China had axed the meeting because of a row over rare earth minerals, while Beijing blamed scheduling problems.
Japan, citing its industry sources, says that China has halted the exports of the minerals, a group of 17 elements vital for producing high-tech goods from mobile phones to hybrid engines.
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