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“Japan, China pledge to bolster ties with Hu’s visit
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TOKYO (AFP) — Japan and China pledged Friday to build on a recent thaw in icy relations when President Hu Jintao visits in May, setting aside differences over Tibet, disputed gas fields and poisoned dumplings.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi met Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and other top officials as part of a trip aimed at clearing the way for Hu’s trip, which will be the first visit here by a Chinese head of state in a decade.
‘China would like to build a framework with Japan through the visit (by Hu) so that the two countries will prosper in the long term,’ Yang told reporters.
‘I showed my appreciation to Prime Minister Fukuda as he said he supported a successful Olympics in China,’ he said.
The ministers appeared to have largely steered clear of the sensitive issue of Tibet on the second day of Yang’s visit, though the Japanese government’s number two, Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura, said he had raised it briefly.
‘I only said there was a problem’ in Tibet, Machimura said. ‘I hear the foreign ministers discussed the matter for quite a long time last night.’
Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura called for more transparency and dialogue over Tibet when he met his Chinese co”
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