Zhao Qizheng Meets Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary
Zhao Qizheng, director of the Information Office of the Chinese State Council, paid an official call on Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiromu Nonaka in Tokyo yesterday.
Chinese President Jiang Zemin's visit to Japan as a state head achieved positive results and the two sides published the joint statement on establishing friendly cooperative partnership of peace and development, Nonaka told Zhao, adding that Japan and China should promote the development of this achievement with concrete efforts.
We cannot forget history, which should be a teacher of the future, otherwise Japan and China will not have established friendly relations passing from generation to generation, Nonaka stressed.
Nonaka said in view of this stand, he in 1963 led former Japanese soldiers to make a self-examination in Nanjing, where the Japanese aggressor troops committed the notorious massacre in 1937, and led young Japanese politicians in visiting the Memorial Hall of Nanjing Massacre again in 1998.
Zhao appreciated Nonaka's efforts to develop the Sino-Japanese relationship and hope the two nations media would strengthen their reports on each other so as to promote mutual understanding and make contribution to boosting the development of the two countries' friendly relations.
WorldNews 1999-01-13 Page6
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