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Clinton says disputed islands part of Japan-US pact: Maehara
TOKYO (AFP) The disputed islands at the heart of a bitter diplomatic spat between Beijing and Tokyo are covered by the Japan-US security treaty, Hillary Clinton told Japan's foreign minister Thursday, reports said.
Under the 1960 treaty, the United States is obliged to defend Japan against any attack on a territory under Tokyo's administration.
Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara told reporters after his meeting with the US secretary of state that Clinton had acknowledged the Senkaku islands -- known as the Daioyu islands by China, which also claims them -- were subject to the treaty, Kyodo News Agency reported from New York.
"According to the Japanese minister, Clinton said that the Senkakus... are subject to Article 5 of the bilateral security treaty, which authorizes the U.S. to protect Japan in the event of an armed attack 'in the territories under the administration of Japan'," the report said.
The dispatch did not quote Maehara directly.
State Department spokesman Philip Crowley separately told reporters the United States takes no position on the sovereignty of the islands.
"The issue of the Senkakus is complicated," Crowley said in New York.
He said that Maehara explained to Clinton that the Japanese are "pursuing this case through their legal system and that they expected to be able to resolve it, and we simply encouraged that to happen as soon as possible".
Relations between Tokyo and Beijing have soured since the arrest earlier this month of the captain of a Chinese fishing boat following a collision with two Japanese coast guard vessels near the islands in the East China Sea.
Japan says the captain deliberately rammed the vessels and continues to hold him, despite repeated angry demands from China for his release.
In a possible escalation of the dispute, China's state media reported Thursday that four Japanese nationals were being held in the north of the country over allegations they had filmed military installations.
Officially pacifist Japan hosts a large US military contingent, on which it has depended for its protection since renouncing aggressive warfare six decades ago.
Clinton says disputed islands part of Japan-US pact: Maehara
TOKYO (AFP) The disputed islands at the heart of a bitter diplomatic spat between Beijing and Tokyo are covered by the Japan-US security treaty, Hillary Clinton told Japan's foreign minister Thursday, reports said.
Under the 1960 treaty, the United States is obliged to defend Japan against any attack on a territory under Tokyo's administration.
Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara told reporters after his meeting with the US secretary of state that Clinton had acknowledged the Senkaku islands -- known as the Daioyu islands by China, which also claims them -- were subject to the treaty, Kyodo News Agency reported from New York.
"According to the Japanese minister, Clinton said that the Senkakus... are subject to Article 5 of the bilateral security treaty, which authorizes the U.S. to protect Japan in the event of an armed attack 'in the territories under the administration of Japan'," the report said.
The dispatch did not quote Maehara directly.
State Department spokesman Philip Crowley separately told reporters the United States takes no position on the sovereignty of the islands.
"The issue of the Senkakus is complicated," Crowley said in New York.
He said that Maehara explained to Clinton that the Japanese are "pursuing this case through their legal system and that they expected to be able to resolve it, and we simply encouraged that to happen as soon as possible".
Relations between Tokyo and Beijing have soured since the arrest earlier this month of the captain of a Chinese fishing boat following a collision with two Japanese coast guard vessels near the islands in the East China Sea.
Japan says the captain deliberately rammed the vessels and continues to hold him, despite repeated angry demands from China for his release.
In a possible escalation of the dispute, China's state media reported Thursday that four Japanese nationals were being held in the north of the country over allegations they had filmed military installations.
Officially pacifist Japan hosts a large US military contingent, on which it has depended for its protection since renouncing aggressive warfare six decades ago.
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