China Urges Faster Destruction of Abandoned World War II-Era Japanese Chemical Weapons

Japan should quicken the destruction of chemical weapons it abandoned in China during World War II, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said today (see GSN, June 27).

“It is the Japanese side that should take more measures to push forward the process of destroying the chemical weapons,” said ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao.

A Japanese Foreign Ministry official, however, was quoted by Japanese media as saying Tokyo was willing to complete the disposal process more quickly and that Beijing was to blame for the delay, according to the Xinhua news agency (Xinhua, June 28).

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