Home>News Center>China
       
 

Expedition to Diaoyu Islands slated for May
(China Daily HK Edition)
Updated: 2005-02-27 09:31

HK community organizations plan to embark in May on another expedition to proclaim China's territorial rights to the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea.


Diaoyu Island and adjacent isles are part of the the Chinese territorial sovereignty. [
www.cfdd.org.cn]
Members of the Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands Friday demanded the Japanese Government stop infringing upon China's sovereignty to the island chain.

The latest expedition was prompted by an announcement by the Japanese Government that it will take over a lighthouse built by a Japanese right-wing group on the islands. Tokyo vowed to protect the lighthouse as Japan's state property.

"We have seen that there is a rise of militarism in Japan.

The Japanese Government has publicly supported the political group with big military ambitions to occupy the island," the committee's representative Lo Chau said.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned Japan's latest move, saying that Tokyo's unilateral actions on the Diaoyu Islands were "illegal and invalid".

"The Japanese troops committed massacres and other heinous crimes in China during World War II. Ahead of the 60th anniversary of China's victory against Japanese aggression in World War II, the Japanese Government should fulfil its historical responsibility to acknowledge the crimes," the committee member and legislator Albert Ho said.

"Japan has taken advantage of the (current) tensions across Taiwan Straits in making a claim over the Diaoyu Islands. This is absolutely an act of shame and disgrace," Ho said.

The committee will kick off a fund-raising activity at community level to collect donations to rent a vessel for the expedition between May and June. It will need HK$1-2 million to fund a seven-to-nine-day expedition.

Though it has not decided on how many people will be sent on the expedition, the committee said it will liaise with overseas groups to join in the event. The committee said it plans to raise HK$5 million in the longer term, which will enable the organization to buy a vessel so it can set off on an expedition to the islands at any time.

Meanwhile, David Chu, one of the Hong Kong deputies to the National People's Congress (NPC), said he will try to enlist support from 30 NPC deputies to launch a petition that asks the central government to assume a tougher stance in safeguarding the islands.

Chu said he will raise the petition - either through a motion or a proposal - when the annual meeting of the NPC opens next week.

"We want to show that Hong Kong citizens strongly oppose the Japanese invasion of our lands," Chu said.

The petroleum-rich island group in the East China Sea, named Senkaku by Japan, lies between Japan's southern island of Okinawa and China's Taiwan Province. The islands are uninhabited but surrounded by rich fishing waters.

Japan claimed the chain in 1895 though China said the islands have been Chinese for centuries. The United States administered the islands after World War II but turned over control of them to Japan in 1972.



 
  Today's Top News     Top China News
 

Criminal penalties pondered for aborting females

 

   
 

Taiwan urged to back '1992 Consensus'

 

   
 

Securities legislation protects investors

 

   
 

Wen calls for more efforts to curb corruption

 

   
 

Syria hands Saddam's half-brother to Iraq

 

   
 

730 mln farmers to pay no agricultural taxes

 

   
  Relief underway in snow-hit areas of Tibet
   
  China National Coal plans US$1 bln HK IPO
   
  China's legislature to revise Corporation Law
   
  China to face electricity shortage in 2005
   
  Expedition to Diaoyu Islands slated for May
   
  Sino-Japoanese minister-level dialogue planned
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  Related Stories  
   
Non-government group plans to lease, develop Diaoyudao
   
Chinese protest against move on islands
   
Japan's action on island lighthouse "illegal'
   
Island dispute should be solved via talks
   
China issues first Diaoyu Islands post card
   
Hackers attack Diaoyu Islands defenders' website
   
Seven Diaoyu activists return home
  News Talk  
  It is time to prepare for Beijing - 2008  
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 我要看免费的毛片| 欧美黄色一级片免费看| 国产午夜视频在线观看| 久久精品a亚洲国产v高清不卡| 波多野结衣一二三区| 免费高清小黄站在线观看| 巨胸喷奶水视频www网快速| 天堂网在线最新版www| 三级网址在线播放| 日产精品一致六区搬运| 亚洲精品欧洲精品| 精品人妻潮喷久久久又裸又黄 | 国产欧美日韩精品丝袜高跟鞋| 中文字幕久精品免费视频| 日韩理论电影在线观看| 免费人成视频在线观看视频| 亚洲图片欧美另类| 国产高清在线观看麻豆| A级国产乱理伦片| 夫醉酒被公侵犯的电影中字版| 久久综合九色综合97免费下载| 欧美在线视频一区| 亚洲日韩一区二区三区| 污污动漫在线看| 亚洲色图综合网站| 色一情一乱一乱91av| 国产在线观看午夜不卡| 国产chinese91在线| 短篇丝袜乱系列集合嘉嘉| 国产在线精品一区二区在线看| 欧美日韩一区二区不卡三区 | 久久综合九色综合欧美狠狠| 秦先生第15部大战宝在线观看| 噜噜嘿在线视频免费观看| 日本一二三精品黑人区| 国产精品无码一区二区在线 | 好吊妞在线播放| 一二三四在线观看免费中文动漫版| 最近2018中文字幕2019高清| 亚洲大尺度无码无码专区| 欧美极品欧美日韩|