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UNITED NATIONS: Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda insisted on Wednesday there could be no compromise with China on the ownership of a disputed island chain and denounced attacks on Japanese interests. Speaking to reporters at the UN General Assembly in New York, Noda said China misunderstands the issues at stake and demanded an end to threats against Japanese citizens and business interests in China by protesters. "So far as the Senkaku islands are concerned, they are an integral part of our territory in the light of history and of international law," Noda said, referring to an archipelago in the East China Sea that China knows as Diaoyu. "It is very clear and there are no territorial issues as such. Therefore there cannot be any compromise that could mean any setback from this basic position. I have to make that very clear," he told reporters. "The resolution of this issue should not be by force, but calmly, through reason and with respect for international war." China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told his Japanese counterpart Koichiro Gemba at the United Nations on Tuesday that Japan had been guilty of "severely infringing" its sovereignty, according to Beijing's foreign ministry. "The Chinese side will by no means tolerate any unilateral action by the Japanese side on the Diaoyu Islands," Yang told Gemba, according to his office. A Japanese official in New York confirmed to AFP that the talks had been "severe," but noted the two sides had agreed to maintain a <b>...</b>