2.Though the drill site is not in a disputedarea, the field straddles the contested demarcation line and Japan worries that reserves in the area might be sucked dry.
3.In 1968 the reconnaissance and survey team (勘探调查会) of ECAFE (UN Economic Commission for Asia and Far East联合国远东经济委员会) declared that seabed petroleum resources abounds beneath the East China Sea, since then the East China Sea has become a disputedarea between China and Japan.
4.Steps were promised (as, fruitlessly, they were at the 2000 summit) to reduce military tensions: defence ministers would meet, while a disputed western maritime area would see its fisheries jointly mined.
