The storage tanks used for storing handled water at TEPCO’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, August 24, 2023. /CFP
The Chinese atmosphere minister has urged Japan to faithfully fulfill its worldwide obligations, interact in thorough consultations with different stakeholders, and get rid of the nuclear-contaminated water in a scientific and accountable means.
Noting that the disposal of nuclear-contaminated water issues the worldwide marine ecosystem and public well being, Minister of Ecology and Environment Huang Runqiu made the remarks in the course of the opening ceremony for the twenty fourth Tripartite Environment Ministers Meeting amongst China, Japan and the South Korea.
Respective delegations led by Huang, Japanese Minister of the Environment Shintaro Ito, and South Korean Minister of Environment Han Jeoung-ae participated within the assembly, the place they shared their respective nationwide environmental insurance policies and up to date developments, and exchanged views on regional and international environmental problems with mutual concern.
Huang additional famous at a press convention following the assembly, held within the Japanese metropolis of Nagoya from final Friday to Saturday, that Japan ought to promptly set up a long-term worldwide monitoring mechanism that features related neighboring international locations to successfully safeguard the worldwide marine ecosystem.
A protest to induce the South Korean authorities to ban the import of Japanese aquatic merchandise, Seoul, South Korea, November 2, 2023. /CFP
Joint efforts
Huang mentioned China, Japan and South Korea, as necessary cooperation companions, share geographical proximity and cultural affinity.
China is keen to proceed strengthening cooperation with the opposite two international locations in working towards real multilateralism and collectively selling the success of serious environmental multilateral processes, together with the twenty eighth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change, the worldwide plastics treaty, and the UN Environment Assembly, mentioned Huang.
Efforts can be made to share the experiences of trilateral environmental cooperation with extra companions to make new and higher contributions to regional and international sustainable improvement, he added.
People collect to protest the Japanese authorities’s irresponsible choice to begin releasing nuclear-contaminated wastewater in entrance of the Japanese prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo, Japan, August 22, 2023. /Xinhua
The implementation of the Tripartite Joint Action Plan on Environment Cooperation 2021-2025 was reviewed on the assembly, and the joint communique of the twenty fourth Tripartite Environment Ministers Meeting was collectively signed.
The Tripartite Environment Ministers Meeting amongst China, Japan and South Korea has been held yearly since 1999 to handle widespread environmental points for the area and promote sustainable progress.
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(With enter from Xinhua)
Source: CGTN