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We'll tackle difficult neighbours
together, Japan PM tells India
What is India News Service,
Saturday, 30 April 2005, 1400 hrs IST
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is in Islamabad on Friday and is expected
to convey to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, "in diplomatic
language," that UN reforms are an urgent need of the hour and that
Pakistan's resistance to India's candidature to the Security Council is not
really helping matters. With India and Japan working at fever pitch within the
G4 framework to hasten the expansion of the UN Security Council,
"difficult" neighbours are now being requested not to play spoilers.
A senior Japanese Foreign Ministry official here on Friday said, "Prime Minister Koizumi will talk about this (UN reforms) and will ask his Pakistani counterpart to understand the urgent need for UN reforms." Asked specifically whether he would raise the question of Pakistan's resistance to India at the UNSC, the official said, "The matter will be discussed in a diplomatic language."
As for Japan's own difficult neighbour, China, which invokes World War II history at the mention of Japan's candidature to the Security Council, the official sought to play down the differences. He said Mr Koizumi conveyed to the Indian leadership that, "The Japan-China relationship is an important one. Some have been seeing friction and confrontation between the two countries in recent times but the economic ties have never been so vigorous."
On China's repeated rewind to history's bitter legacy with Japan, the official regretted that, "The Chinese have this feeling about Japan having hurt their people. Despite our repeated apologies, China keeps bringing up the issue of a war that got over 60 years ago." He instead insisted that China should concentrate on their economic ties, which are "far more important".
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