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Japan, Australia agree on security cooperation
AP - 2 hours 16 minutes ago
TOKYO - Japan and Australia agreed to boost diplomatic and security cooperation on Thursday following top-level talks, which came amid a dispute between the Pacific allies over Japan's whaling.
The defense and foreign ministers of Japan and Australia vowed to step up cooperation in tackling terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, according to a joint statement. They also threw their support behind stalled international talks on North Korea's nuclear disarmament.
Earlier in the day, Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada and Australian Defense Minister Joel Fitzgibbon signed a memorandum that calls for more high-level cooperation and consultation in the areas of regional disaster relief effort, international peacekeeping and military exercises.
Japan and Australia signed a security pact in March 2007 _ Tokyo's first apart from its military alliance with the Untied States.
The ministers' talks _ part of routine high-level meetings _ stressed the need to expand security cooperation, but they did not mention Japan's whaling.
Australia is a strong opponent of Japan's annual whale hunt, charging that it is a front for commercial whaling. It announced a plan in September with anti-whaling ally New Zealand for a non-lethal whale research program in Antarctic waters, which conservationists say will challenge Japan's program.
On North Korea, the ministers said they reaffirmed their support for the six-way talks' process "toward the verifiable denuclearization of North Korea," according to the statement.
In Beijing last week, envoys failed to agree on how to verify North Korea's past atomic activities in the latest round of negotiations, which include China, South Korea, North Korea, Japan, Russia and the United States.
The talks were marked by frustration over Pyongyang's refusal to put into writing any commitments on inspection, making it impossible to move forward on a disarmament-for-aid agreement.
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