Home>News Center>China
       
 

Koizumi talking: 'Yasukuni card' won't work
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-12-05 17:02

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi put the blame on China Monday for postponing an annual summit of Japan, China and South Korea, claiming that Beijing cannot use his visits to a war shrine as a diplomatic card.

China hinted on Thursday it would oppose Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, days before a visit by Secretary-General Kofi Annan that will address plans to reform the body.
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi leaves the controversial Yasukuni war shrine in October 2005.[AFP]
Ties with China and South Korea have been chilled by Koizumi's annual visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine.

Koizumi has defied protests and visited the Shinto sanctuary five times while in office, most recently on October 17, triggering protests from the two Asian neighbours.

"Yasukuni isn't something that can be used as a diplomatic card. Even if China and South Korea try to use it as a diplomatic card, that won't work," Koizumi told reporters.

Koizumi defended his visits to Yasukuni, which honours war criminals with other war dead.

"Those who criticize it are wrong," he said.

China said on Sunday that the annual summit with Japan and South Korea due in mid-December had been postponed. The decision comes at a time when Japan's neighbours continue to question its remorse for past aggression.

China's Foreign Ministry said the summit, to have taken place on the sidelines of a regional conference in Malaysia, has been postponed to an appropriate time due to the "current atmosphere and conditions."

The three-way summit has been held every year since 1999.

"I wouldn't mind holding it at any time. But if they want to postpone it, that's fine," Koizumi said.

China also ruled out any meeting between President Hu Jintao and Koizumi on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in November in South Korea.

Summit host, South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun, met Koizumi but said it was only to show him courtesy as a guest and used the encounter to denounce his visits to the shrine.

Koizumi's Yasukuni visits are also domestically controversial with numerous lawsuits filed against his pilgrimage, mostly on the grounds that it violates the constitutional separation of religion and state.



About 1,000 vehicles stranded in Qinling
Premier Wen starts visit to France
Job fair in Changchun
  Today's Top News     Top China News
 

State banks not sold cheaply - banking regulator

 

   
 

Airbus mulls plane assembly in China

 

   
 

Koizumi talking: 'Yasukuni card' won't work

 

   
 

China's economy to grow by 9.4 pct this year

 

   
 

DPP under pressure to improve mainland ties

 

   
 

Former 9/11 commissioners: US still at risk

 

   
  HIV/AIDS vaccine still some years away
   
  Corrupt official steals Three Gorges' cash
   
  Airbus mulls plane assembly in China
   
  Owner of disaster-struck coal mine disappears
   
  Tap-water supply cut off as city braces for toxic slick
   
  Farmers hit by double whammy
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  Related Stories  
   
FM: Summit with Japan, S.Korea postponed
   
Japanese PM backs constitutional changes
   
South Korea rules out bilateral summit with Japan at December forum
   
Sino-Japanese leaders' meeting impossible in December - official
   
China rules out meeting with Koizumi
   
Shrine visit 'pouring salt into open wound'
  News Talk  
  It is time to prepare for Beijing - 2008  
Manufacturers, Exporters, Wholesalers - Global trade starts here.
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 冠希与阿娇实干13分钟视频| 2021国产麻豆剧传媒仙踪林 | 国产午夜精品无码| 3d动漫精品啪啪一区二区免费| 天天看免费高清影视| 一级毛片短视频| 打屁股xxxx| 久久亚洲国产精品| 日韩精品免费视频| 亚洲人成激情在线播放| 欧美日韩在线视频一区| 亚洲色欲久久久综合网| 秋葵app官网免费下载地址| 又黄又粗又爽免费观看| 色综合一区二区三区| 国产午夜爽爽窝窝在线观看| 99heicom视频| 国产精品VA无码一区二区| 3atv国产精品视频| 国产青草视频在线观看免费影院| 99热国产精品| 夜来香高清在线观看| a级毛片高清免费视频| 太深太粗太爽太猛了视频| xxxx日本在线播放免费不卡| 巨r精灵催眠动漫无删减| 中文字幕一精品亚洲无线一区| 无码人妻丰满熟妇区毛片18| 久久一本岛在免费线观看2020 | 再深点灬舒服灬太大了添学长 | 国色天香社区在线观看免费播放 | 欧美jizz8性欧美| 亚洲伊人久久大香线焦| 欧美在线看片a免费观看| 亚洲成人黄色网| 欧美日韩亚洲一区二区三区在线观看| 亚洲毛片在线看| 欧美日韩综合网| 亚洲国产精品ⅴa在线观看| 欧美双茎同入视频在线观看| 亚洲国产最大av|