賴斯談日本新內閣 中日關系有望改善
[ 2006-09-27 09:34 ]
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美國國務卿賴斯在接受《紐約郵報》采訪時表示，由安倍晉三領導的日本新任內閣有助于中日關系的改善。當問及日本改憲是否會衍生出核問題時，賴斯表示她并不肯定。 |
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| Japan's prime minister-in-waiting Shinzo Abe
(C) shakes hands with newly appointed executives of his ruling
Liberal Democratic Party at the party headquarters in Tokyo
September 25, 2006. [Reuters] |
Under just-appointed conservative Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe, Japan will likely "start to move" closer to China, US
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview.
"I think that you will see Prime
Minister Abe try to make some improvements and I think the Chinese will be
receptive to that," Rice told The New York Post.
Rice said Japan and China "don't lack contacts" through
regional fora, and recently
agreed to settle a border dispute in the East China Sea.
"It may sound like a minor matter, but it's not," Rice said referring
to the joint efforts on demarcation, which she said "would be a very
big step forward, actually, for them."
Asked if Japan's likely constitutional reform would lead the country to
seek nuclear weapons under the new prime minister, Rice, in a
transcript of the interview
provided by the State Department, said she was unconcerned.
"I do not think we're headed in that direction with Japan. I think
there are a lot of self-regulating reasons for Japan to remain
non-nuclear," she said, stressing that Japan was "very concerned about the
North Korean (nuclear) issue and its proliferation activities."
One of the reasons the six-party talks "was so important for
controlling the nuclear ambitions of North Korea because it has Japan at
the table with China, with the United States, with Russia (and South
Korea), and I think then forestalls any further nuclearization of the
region," she added.
Rice said "the Japanese will have to decide" what their new
constitution should say, adding that the United States has been
strengthening US-Japan defense cooperation "quite dramatically over the
last couple of years."
(Agencies) |
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fora: forum
的復數
demarcation: 劃分、區分
transcript:
錄音文字
（英語點津陳蓓編輯） | |
