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[Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Urges Japan to fulfill its responsibilities under the treaty and completely destroy chemical weapons abandoned in China] September 7th, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning hosted a regular press conference on September 7th. Reporter's question: We have noticed that a delegation from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was invited to visit China to inspect facilities for processing Japanese relics of chemical weapons. Can the spokesperson introduce the relevant situation?
Mao Ning said that from August 31 to September 5, the Director-General and Chairman of the Executive Council of the OPCW, as well as permanent representatives and senior diplomats of 12 countries to the OPCW, were invited to visit China. During this period, they went to Hunchun in Jilin and Halbaling in Dunhua to inspect the excavation, recovery, and destruction of Japanese relics of chemical weapons on site. Mao Ning pointed out that this visit coincides with the Victory Day of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Victory Day of the World Anti-Fascist War. Back then, the Japanese militarism launched an invasion of China that brought serious humanitarian disasters and also left behind the historical poison of Japanese chemical weapons. Through the visit, all parties further recognized the serious harm caused by the chemical weapons abandoned by Japan to the Chinese people's lives and property and the ecological environment, supported the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in accordance with the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention, and urged Japan to fulfill its responsibilities as soon as possible, comprehensively, cleanly and completely destroy the chemical weapons abandoned in China, return the pure land to the Chinese people at an early date, and achieve the lofty goal of a world free of chemical weapons set out in the Convention. (CCTV News)
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