Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 29 (Reporters Yuan Rui and Shao Yibo) Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said in a question at a regular press conference on the 29th that eliminating the poison of Japanese chemical weapons is an unshirkable historical, political and legal responsibility of Japan. China urges Japan to speed up the process of handling Japanese chemical weapons, return the Chinese people to security and pure land as soon as possible, and return the international community to justice.

  A reporter asked: This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. Today is the 28th anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Japan's abandonment of chemical weapons in China is an important example of Japanese militarism's crimes against the Chinese people, and handling Japanese chemical weapons is an important task under the framework of the Convention. Can the spokesperson explain how this work is progressing? What are China’s concerns?

  "The abandonment of chemical weapons by the Japanese army invading China was one of the serious crimes committed by the Japanese militarist invaders in the war of aggression against China." Guo Jiakun said that although the war has ended for 80 years, the Japanese chemical weapons still seriously threaten and endanger the lives and property of the people in relevant Chinese regions. The removal of the poisonous poisons of chemical weapons in Japan is an unshirkable historical, political and legal responsibility of Japan, and it is also an international obligation stipulated in the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

  "With China's strong assistance, Japan has excavated and recovered about 150,000 Japanese chemical weapons and destroyed about 120,000, but overall, the process of handling Japanese chemical weapons is still seriously lagging behind," he said.

  Guo Jiakun said that this year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, and the 28th anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. To this day, there are still chemical weapons left in China. China urges Japan to fulfill its obligations and fulfill its responsibilities, comprehensively, fully and accurately implement the Japanese chemical weapons destruction plan after 2022, accelerate the process of handling Japanese chemical weapons, return the Chinese people to security and pure land as soon as possible, and return the international community to justice.

[Editor in charge: Liu Ziya]