2013-02-12 01:59:53 GMT2013-02-12 09:59:53(Beijing Time) ?SINA.com
Japan plans to donate patrol boats costing $11 million each to the Philippines, ramping up regional efforts to "monitor China?s maritime activity in disputed waters", according to a newspaper.
The Japanese government plans to finance the deal in its fiscal 2013 budget starting in April and hopes to officially sign it early next year, the Nikkei business daily reported on Monday.
Japan will then provide the Philippines with the newly built patrol vessels, which will cost more than one billion yen each, the newspaper said, without specifying the number of boats on offer.
Both countries are locked in separate island disputes with China.
The Philippines is one of several Southeast Asian countries, including Vietnam, that are rowing with China over claims to parts of the South China Sea.?
The Japanese coastguard also plans to train Philippine and Vietnamese personnel as part of additional efforts to boost security cooperation with Southeast Asia, the Nikkei said.
In the fiscal 2013 budget draft, 2.5 billion yen has been allotted for such expenditure, it said.
Last month, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida visited Manila and called for stronger ties with the Philippines to help ensure regional peace.
Japan?s coast guard last month said it would create a special unit comprising 10 new large patrol boats to boost its surveillance of the Diaoyu islands.
The long-running row over the islands intensified in September when Tokyo "nationalised" part of the chain, triggering huge anti-Japan demonstrations across China.
(Agencies)
Source: http://english.sina.com/world/2013/0211/560557.html
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