FMs from China, S. Korea, Japan agree to holding leaders' summit soon
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has met his South Korean and Japanese counterparts in Seoul. The three foreign ministers agreed to hold a leaders' summit to improve the ties. The trilateral summit had been on hold for nearly three years because of tensions over history and territory.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has met his South Korean and Japanese counterparts in Seoul. |
The foreign ministers were meeting, also for the first time in three years, in a bid to restore what had been a regular forum to discuss cooperation. The forum collapsed over what Seoul and Beijing saw as Japan's reluctance to own up to its wartime past.
During the talks, the ministers emphasized the importance of relations between each of the three countries as well as trilateral cooperation, for the sake of peace, stability and prosperity of the Northeast Asian region.
"This is the year marking the 70th anniversary of the anti-facist war. The war has been over for 70 years, but the problem with history remains a present issue, not an issue of the past. We should not turn it into a future tense," said Chinese FM Wang Yi.
"Japan, South Korea and China have put strong emphasis on the early resumption of a summit. With this foreign ministers' meeting today, I welcome the fact that we were able to agree on the early resumption. We hope to make more efforts to cooperate with South Korea and China in order to bring about a summit," said Japanese FM Fumio Kishida.
"We decided to continue our joint efforts to resume meaningful talks and stop North Korea enhancing its nuclear capacity," said S. Korean FM Yun Byung-se.
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