Assurance On Okinawa
fIV.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) ‘s TOKYO, Feb. 27. ; The Japanese Prime Mini- ister (Mr Eisaku Sato), said '• on Wednesday that President i Nixon had assured him that o Okinawa would be nuclear- • free after its reversion to . Japan in 1972. . Mr Sato said that the asl surance was given during his ; Washington talks with Presi- ; dent Nixon last November ! about the reversion of Oki- 1 nawa and other Ryukyu i islands to Japan. i ' Replying to questions from j j Mr Kanji Kawasaki, a mem- * . her of the major Opposition 2 > Japan Socialist Party at a ' ’ Lower House Budget Com- J mittee session, Mr Sato said a , that Japan's “three-point non- c i nuclear principles” would ’ 1 apply to post-reversion Oki- 6 nawa without any reservation, c The principles call on the c Government not to possess, , not to manufacture, and not t to introduce atomic weapons c into the country. [ Mr Sato added that he had t declared time and again that d his Government would hold f fast to these principles. c
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32234, 28 February 1970, Page 8
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