Beijing - SPA
China and Japan will on Monday begin the destruction of chemical weapons abandoned by Japan in north-east China at the end of World War II, according to reports citing China's Foreign Ministry and quoted by dpa.
An estimated 330,000 pieces of weaponry are buried in the Harbaling area of Jilin Province, where the work will begin, Xinhua news agency cited China's Foreign Ministry as saying Sunday.
Japan abandoned at least 2 million tons of chemical weapons in sites scattered across 15 Chinese provinces at the end of World War II, according to Xinhua.