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Chinese ships enter disputed waters: Japan
by Staff Writers
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 4, 2012


China says it held talks with Japan on islands row
Beijing (AFP) Nov 5, 2012 - China said it finished another round of meetings with Japan Monday about a dispute over East China Sea islands that has hurt bilateral trade and deepened tensions.

Both sides have publicly refused to back down on their respective claims tyo the Japan-controlled islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.

Tokyo nationalised the islands in September, sparking street protests in Chinese cities. China has also cancelled official events in response to the move.

Chinese and Japanese officials overseeing Asian affairs met on Sunday and Monday to prepare for more talks between their deputy foreign ministers, which began in September, said foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei.

He did not say where the meeting took place.

The Chinese representative "said that China is willing to solve the dispute with negotiation but China would never cede even half a step for sovereignty issues", according to Hong.

He reiterated China's stance that Japan "admit mistakes" and "make concrete efforts" to resolve the situation.

National pride as well as potential mineral reserves are at stake in the decades-old dispute, which has hit the huge trade relationship between the world's second and third largest economies.

The row escalated in September after Tokyo purchased some of the islands to prevent Tokyo's nationalist governor from doing so, prompting large-scale and occasionally violent demonstrations across China.

Since September, Chinese vessels have moved in and out of what Japan says is its sovereign territory, most recently for three consecutive days ending Sunday.

Four Chinese government ships temporarily sailed into the territorial waters of disputed Tokyo-controlled islands in the East China Sea on Sunday, Japan's coastguard said.

The maritime surveillance vessels entered the 12-nautical-mile zone around Uotsurijima, the main islet in the disputed chain called the Senkaku Islands in Japan and the Diaoyu Islands in China at about noon (0300 GMT).

The four ships left the zone at about 3:00 pm (0600 GMT) and remained within 24-nautical-mile "contiguous" waters off Uotsurijima at 3:30 pm ( 0630 GMT), a coastguard official said.

Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Chikao Kawai "strongly protested to the Chinese ambassador Cheng Yonghua about the Chinese ships' intrusion into Japan's territorial waters, and the growing frequency of such moves" by telephone, the foreign ministry in Tokyo said in a statement.

Kawai said the "repeated provocative action" would undermine communication between the countries aimed at calming the situation, according to the statement.

The Chinese envoy repeated Beijing's own view on the issue but added he was seeking to resolve the dispute through dialogue, it said.

Chinese vessels have moved in and out of what Japan says is its sovereign territory over the past two months since Tokyo nationalised some of the islands in the group.

It was the third consecutive day that Chinese vessels have entered the territorial waters of the disputed islets.

On Friday, six Chinese government ships temporarily entered the territorial waters around the same islet, while on Saturday, one Chinese government ship temporarily entered the same area, according to the coastguard.

As well as the potential mineral reserves, national pride is at stake in the decades-old spat, which has recently spiked and hit the huge trade relationship between the two biggest economies in the region.

Japan and China are readying for a third round of talks on the issue, but Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is not likely to hold bilateral talks with Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao on the sidelines of an Asia-Europe summit in Laos opening on Monday, reports have said.

Noda will mention the importance of observing international laws to resolve territorial issues at the Asia-Europe summit, the premier told local media Sunday, adding how to improve "the ties with China and South Korea all comes down to level-headed discussions," Jiji Press reported.

Japan is also embroiled in a separate row with South Korea over a different set of disputed islands in the Sea of Japan, known as the East Sea by Koreans.

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