BEIJING (Kyodo) -- China said Monday that President Hu Jintao will attend a regional summit in Yokohama on the weekend, but a senior official said no arrangement has yet been made for a bilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the sidelines.
"I do not have information available on whether there's a bilateral meeting," Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin said in a news briefing ahead of the two-day summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum starting Saturday.
On Friday, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai urged Japan to "do everything in its power" to improve bilateral relations, referring to a suspected leak to the Internet of video footage showing a collision between a Chinese fishing boat and Japanese patrol ships in disputed waters in September.
In late October, China abruptly cancelled a planned one-to-one official meeting between Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Kan in Hanoi on the sidelines of regional summits while accusing Tokyo of having the wrong attitude toward Beijing. There is a possibility that China will continue making arrangements up to the last minute even after Hu arrives in Japan.
Hu is also scheduled to attend the Group of 20 summit opening Thursday in Seoul.
Ties between Japan and China have been strained since Japan's coast guard detained the Chinese trawler captain following the collisions in September near a Japanese-administered island also claimed by China.
(Mainichi Japan) November 8, 2010
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