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Japan To Build Huge Chemical Weapons Disposal Complex In China: Report
Tokyo (AFP) Jun 06, 2005 Japan will spend more than 200 billion yenbillion dollars) on building a chemical weapons disposal center in China to process Japanese weapons left there after World War II, a news report said Monday. The chemical weapons recovery and disposal facilities will be built in the Haerbaling district of Jilin province, where most of Japan's abandoned chemical weapons are believed to be buried, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said. The project is expected to be the largest overseas endeavor ever to be undertaken by the Japanese government, it said, without citing sources. The cost of the project may increase further if the disposal process takes longer than expected, it said. Officials at the foreign ministry were not immediately available for comment. Japan and China will sign a special accord this summer on the initiative, the newspaper said. The accord is expected to allow foreign companies that are not eligible to take part in large-scale projects under Chinese law to work on the disposal as long as they receive approval from the Japanese government, the newspaper said. Foreign companies working on the project will also receive preferential treatment in tariffs on materials imported for the initiative, as well as in taxes on project-related deals in China, the newspaper said. The Japanese government is expected to conduct an international bidding process for selecting construction companies for the project within the year, it said. Japan estimates its forces abandoned more than 700,000 chemical weapons in China during the war, although Chinese experts say as many as two million exist -- the world's largest stockpile of abandoned chemical arms. Some 90 percent of abandoned chemical weapons, including mustard gas, a highly poisonous blistering agent, are buried in Haerbaling and experts fear chemical agents from the weapons may have polluted the soil in the area. Under the UN Chemical Weapons Convention, Japan has until 2007 to destroy all of the chemical weapons its troops left in China. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express China News from SinoDaily.com
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