Japan's Foreign Ministry says China is building a new structure in waters between the two countries in the East China Sea. It says it has lodged a protest with China, SİA informs via NHK World-Japan.
China's unilateral construction of structures is taking place despite a 2008 agreement, in which the two countries' governments agreed on joint gas field development in the area. However, negotiations on the implementation of the deal stalled.
The ministry on Monday said it confirmed a new Chinese structure is under construction on the Chinese side of the median line between the two countries.
The director-general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, Kanai Masaaki, issued a protest to a senior diplomat from the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo. The Japanese official called China's unilateral activities "extremely regrettable" and demanded that Beijing return to the stalled negotiations.
The ministry says the structure being set up by China is the 21st of its kind, following ones confirmed in May and June.
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