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Article: Japan/China chemical weapons talks progress
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- Haznews
- Article date:
- February 1, 1997
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China and Japan are to establish a joint working group to discuss the removal and destruction of chemical weapons left in China by the Japanese Army at the end of World War II. According to a Xinhua news agency report from Reuters News Service, China has stressed that Japan should be entirely responsible for the disposal operations, and Japanese negotiators have made such a commitment (see HAZNEWS, July 1996, p. 17).
China claims that millions of chemical bombs and tonnes of toxic material from Japan's 1931-45 invasion are in abandoned dumps around China. In a Zhongguo Xinwen She news agency report from the BBC Monitoring Service, a spokesman for China's Foreign Mini ...