China said on Tuesday that Japan’s agreeing to turn over sensitive nuclear material of potential use in bombs to the United States was a step in the right direction, but that it had other material it still needed to hand over.
The leaders of Japan and the United States, meeting at a nuclear security summit in the Netherlands, said that hundreds of kilograms (pounds) of material of potential use would be downgraded and disposed of.
“China welcomes the reaching of this deal,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “We appreciate and support the United States’ hard efforts to collect sensitive nuclear materials from overseas.”
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Ben Blanchard, Reuters via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/1hm22Ab
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