Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue Saturday quoted
Premier Wen Jiabao as saying that to develop China-Japan relations,
it is a must to adhere to the view of "taking history as a mirror
and looking forward to the future" and abide by the principles of
the three major documents including the China-Japan Joint
Declaration.
When asked to comment on Wen's meeting with Japanese Prime
Minister Koizumi Junichiro in Bali, Indonesia, Zhang said that
Premier Wen had made it clear that Japan should adopt a correct
attitude toward history, and the urgent matter at present on the
part of Japan is to properly handle the incident resulting from
Japan's abandoned chemical weapons that harmed Chinese people in
the Chinese city of Qiqihar.
At the same time, Japan should quicken its pace in destroying
chemical weapons it abandoned in China during World War II, Wen was
quoted as saying.
Zhang said the two leaders' meeting did not touch on the issue
of their mutual visits.
(Xinhua News Agency October 12, 2003)