Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Taro Kono and his Chinese counterpart have pledged to improve ties between their nations and affirmed a commitment to stick with U. N. resolutions aimed at forcing North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons. Kono met the Chinese government’s top diplomat, State Councillor Wang YiWang Yi, in
Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Taro Kono and his Chinese counterpart have pledged to improve ties between their nations and affirmed a commitment to stick with U. N. resolutions aimed at forcing North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons.
Kono met the Chinese government’s top diplomat, State Councillor Wang YiWang Yi, in Tokyo on Sunday, having made his own official visit to Beijing earlier this year.
Wang is the first Chinese foreign minister to visit Japan in a bilateral context in the nine years since Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Xi Jinping promised to reset the sometimes fraught relations between Asia’s two largest economies.
« Through mutual visits between our two leaders we agreed to pursue wide-reaching cooperation and improved ties, » Kono said after Sunday’s meeting.
Economic ties between Japan and China are close, led by corporate investment.
