KABUL: (Middle East Press) According to reports, China and Japan have restarted their long postponed talks regarding security issues amid territorial disputes over the sovereignty of unoccupied islands in the East China Sea.
The talks will be held in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, as early as April, an unnamed diplomatic sources, Kyodo News Agency reported.
It added that high ranking Japanese officials, including Deputy Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama, will likely discuss nautical issues during the meeting.
The conference would be the first since January 2011 in Beijing.
Speaking about the report, Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters, “It’s important that both countries exchange communications in various fields as Japan and China are neighbors, whom the global community is watching closely.”
Japan and China have been at odds in the past few years over the sovereignty of the uninhabited islands known as Senkaku islands in Japan and claimed by China as the Diaoyus.
