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SHANGHAI. Japan’s new foreign minister appealed to the Beijing government yesterday to cut its nuclear arsenal during his first visit to , China since the Democratic , Party took office in Japan less than two weeks ago. A Japan foreign ministry official said after a meeting in , Shanghai between Katsuya Okada , Chinese Foreign Minister Yang , Jiechi and South Korea’, s , Yu Myun-, hwan that the Japanese hoped to bring China on board for nuclear disarmament. "The minister, while welcoming the Obama administration’s Prague speech, also said that he wanted China to make its own efforts on nuclear arms reduction," said the Japanese official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. US , President Barack Obama called for the elimination of all nuclear weapons around the world in a speech in Prague in , April., ", The Hatoyama cabinet’s intent is to intensify its efforts to bring about a world without nuclear weapons," the official said, referring to , Minister Yukio Latest News & pictures Zimbabwe">Japanese Prime Minister Yukio , Hatoyama., Hatoyama’, Democrats Ended Latest News & pictures Zimbabwe">s Democrats ended more than five decades of nearly uninterrupted rule by the conservative Liberal , Democratic Party after a landslide election victory last month. Hatoyama has said that Japan, as the only nation to have suffered nuclear attacks, has a moral mission to strive for a nuclear-free world. At the same time, , Japan relies on the US arsenal to protect it from regional threats, such as unpredictable , neighbour North Korea., Chinese , President Hu Jintao, , speaking at the , United Nations last week, said China had no plans to scrap its nuclear arsenal. China is estimated to have about 400 strategic and tactical nuclear weapons, and stocks of fissile material to produce a much larger array. Still, that pales in comparison with the , United States’, estimated 5 200 nuclear warheads.— Reuters.

Published: Mon, 28th Sep 2009
Source: Zimbabwe Herald Online