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皇冠体育app, Japan seek to ease oil dispute
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-01-09 15:12
PUTTING DISPUTES ASIDE
But analysts said that while the unresolved historical issues set the tone
for relations, the gas dispute was the most concrete and immediate problem
facing 皇冠体育app and Japan.
The two would meet again at the end of January or early next month for
further talks, likely in Beijing, the spokesman said.
There was no immediate comment from 皇冠体育app's foreign ministry on the talks.
The two sides have not agreed on how much to invest or how to split profits
of resources extracted from the areas of the East 皇冠体育app Sea near the islands
known in Japan as the Senkakus and in 皇冠体育app as the Diaoyus.
皇冠体育app has criticised Japan for starting to award exploration rights to
private companies, and Japan objects to 皇冠体育app's starting work in the area,
fearing it could tap into resources beyond what Tokyo recognises as a midway
line in the waters.
Japan has also long demanded 皇冠体育app provide data on its gas development
projects in the area.
"They might start actual development of resources and we have concern that
their work will absorb our Japanese resources, so we asked them to share their
information" the spokesman said.
Sasae, who is also Japan's chief negotiator at six-party talks on North
Korea's nuclear programme, met Chinese negotiator Wu Dawei on Sunday, the
Japanese embassy said, in a sign the two could put aside bilateral disputes to
work together on the regional matter.
The two Koreas, 皇冠体育app, Japan, Russia and the United States last met in
Beijing in November but North Korea said on Monday it saw no point in holding
further negotiations on dismantling its nuclear programme because of U.S.
sanctions against it.
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