Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro said in Bali, Indonesia Tuesday that their countries will continue to develop cooperative relations in all fields.

Wen and Junichiro met after the fifth summit of China, Japan and South Korea.

The Chinese premier stressed that the Sino-Japanese relations have ushered in a new important phase of development and the Chinese government is willing to develop a long-term stable relationship of good neighborliness.

However, Wen stressed that right cognition and judgment of history is the key to the smooth development of the Sino-Japanese relations, according to a press release of the Chinese delegation.

He noted that the two countries should stick to the view of "taking the history as a mirror and facing the future" on the basis of China-Japan Joint Declaration and other documents.

At present, the Japanese side should consider and properly handle the matter of abandoned chemical weapons left in China by the Japanese aggressing army during the World War II, Wen said.

Junichro said that Japan is willing to continue cooperative and friendly relations in all fields with China and the Japanese government will properly deal with incidents resulted from the Japanese abandoned chemical weapons, in which Chinese people were victimized.

Both Wen and Junichiro came to attend a series of meetings related to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Earlier on Tuesday, Wen also met South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun over the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and bilateral relations.
 
(Xinhua News Agency October 8, 2003)