China presses for ending arms embargo at ASEM

At the 38-nation Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in Kyoto, China said it would use the forum to urge the European Union to lift its 16-year old arms ban against China. South Korea used the gathering of foreign ministers to urge China to bring North Korea back to long-stalled nuclear negotiations while Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura was reportedly scheduled to hold fence-mending talks with China and South Korea over the explosive issue of Japanese textbooks and their account of Japan's role in WWII.