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Chinese
Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi says Japan “stole” from China a group of islands
in the East China Sea, disputed by Beijing and Tokyo.
“China
strongly urges Japan to immediately stop all activities that violate China’s
territorial sovereignty, take concrete actions to correct its mistakes and
return to the track of resolving the dispute through negotiation,” Yang said in
an address to the 67th session of the UN General Assembly in New York City on
Thursday.
“The
moves taken by Japan are totally illegal and invalid. They can in no way change
the historical fact that Japan stole Diaoyu and its affiliated islands from
China and the fact that China has territorial sovereignty over them.”
On
September 11, Tokyo signed a deal to buy three of the islands, known as Diaoyu
in China and Senkaku in Japan, from their private Japanese owner in line with
plans to nationalize the archipelago.
The
move has angered the Chinese government and led to several anti-Japan
demonstrations in China.
Yang’s
remarks came after Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said on Wednesday that
Tokyo will not compromise on the territorial dispute with Beijing, adding that
the islands “are an integral part of our territory in the light of history and
of international law.”
Japan
and China have long been in a dispute over the sovereignty of the uninhabited
islands, which are located near a crucial shipping lane and would give the
owner exclusive oil, mineral and fishing rights in the surrounding waters.
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