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Issue ID 94/05/27 GMT 10:40     Complied by Tseten Samdup
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Contents
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1) Foreign tourists say four Tibetan monks detained after shouting slogans
2) Congress chairman Raidi: Rwe must thoroughly launch antisplittist
struggles
3) Tibet TV: separatists and antiseparatists in Rserious political struggle
4) Raidi briefs regional leaders on acute and complex antisplittist struggle
5) Tibet: initial successes in anticorruption drive
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1) Foreign tourists say four Tibetan monks detained after shouting slogans
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Kyodo News Service, Tokyo, in English 0546 gmt 26 May 94 BBC SWB
27 May 1994 Text of report

Beijing, 26th May: Foreign tourists in Lhasa, Tibet, reported
Thursday [26th May] that four Tibetan monks were detained on
Tuesday [24th May] after shouting pro-independence slogans near
the city centre.  Police near the famous Johkang Temple in Barkhor
Square immediately descended on the monks, knocking some of them
to the ground before taking them away in police vehicles at about
9am Tuesday, witnesses said.  On 25th May, the Buddhist festival
of Sagothawa is held. Traditionally, it attracts monks to the
Johkang to pray. On 23rd May last year, an estimated 4,000
Buddhist monks and nuns staged independence demonstrations.
According to witnesses, the police presence has been heavy in the
city over the last several days and passengers on all buses coming
into Lhasa are having their identification papers checked.
Several monks arriving in the city are believed to have been
turned back by police at bus stations, the witnesses said.

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2) Congress chairman Raidi: Rwe must thoroughly launch
antisplittist struggles
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Summary: second session of sixth regional peopleUs congress
endedon 24th May,- Raidi chaired meeting, officials attending
meeting listed, the meeting adopted a resolution on the government
work report, on economic and social development plans for 1994 and
other work reports; Raidi gave Ran important speechS; he said
Rdomestic and foreign splittist elements have ganged up with
international hostile forces. They are intensifying, in every
possible way, their splittist and sabotaging activities. We must
thoroughly launch antisplittist struggles; must sternly crack down
on various splittist activities R.

Tibet TV, Lhasa, in Standard Chinese 1200 gmt 24 May 94 BBC SWB 27
May 1994

Text of announcer-read report over video,- from the RRegional News
HookupS programme After successfully completing various agendas
with joint efforts of all its deputies, the second session of the
Sixth Tibet Autonomous Regional PeopleUs Congress ended
victoriously on the afternoon of 24th May. [Video opens with long
shots of a large meeting hall with several hundred attendees
seated and cuts to show medium shots of various leaders seated at
the rostrum.] The second session of the Sixth Tibet Autonomous
Regional PeopleUs Congress held its fourth meeting at the PeopleUs
Hall of Tibet. Comrade Raidi, executive chairman of the session
and chairman of the sessionUs presidium standing committee,
chaired the meeting Seated at the rostrumUs front row were
chairmen of the sessionUs presidium standing committee Puqung,
Zheng Ying, Sengqen Lozong Gyaincain, Pudoje, Namgyai, Samding
Doje Pamo, (?Deqing Quzhen), Gong Daxi, Tian Fujun, Baima Duoji,
(?Yongzhong Dawa) and (?Cui Jiguo). [Video shows close-up shots of
various leaders while their respective names are being read. ]
Also seated at the rostrum were Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai,
vice-chairman of the National PeopleUs Congress Standing
Committee; and leaders of the autonomous regional party committee
and government Chen Kuiyuan, Gyaincain Norbu, Basang, Hu Yongzhu,
Zi Cheng, Lieque, Buqiong and (T?Lu Huimin).  Other than members
of the sessionUs presidium, those sitting at the rostrum also
included leaders of the autonomous regional government, the
regional Chinese PeopleUs Political Consultative Conference
committee, the Tibet Military District, the regional peopleUs
armed police corps, the regional higher peopleUs court and the
regional peopleUs procuratorate.  The number of deputies who were
supposed to attend the meeting was 448; 36 requested a leave of
absence due to sickness or other reasons. The number of attending
deputies was 362, enough to qualify for a quorum.  Attending the
meeting as observers were the secretary-general of the autonomous
regional peopleUs government; deputy secretaries-general of the
autonomous regional peopleUs congress standing committee; comrades
in charge of various autonomous regional departments, bureaus,
commissions, institutions of higher learning, Tibet-based offices
from other inland provinces and municipalities and units under the
party Central Committee; and comrades in charge of various
prefectures, cities and counties.    Voting with a show of hands
at the meeting, the deputies adopted a resolution on the
government work report. After careful deliberation, the meeting
held: With joint efforts of governments at various levels, Tibet
remarkably accelerated its pace of reform and opening up in 1993.
Tibet has further developed its economy, has further enhanced its
political stability, has further fostered unity among
nationalities and has accomplished new achievements in various
construction projects.  The meeting urged: Governments at various
levels should earnestly study socialist market economic theories,
liberate the mind, change their functions, improve workstyles,
comprehensively perform practical work, immerse themselves among
the masses, industriously and practically administer their work
and handle and carry out concrete tasks. They should
conscientiously implement and enforce laws and regulations;
administer their work according to law; and continually improve
their capability and competence to lead the drive for reform,
opening up and socialist modernization.  The meeting urged:
Rallying around the party Central Committee with Comrade Jiang
Zemin as the core, TibetUs people of various nationalities should
closely unite. Under the leadership of the regional party
committee, we should be of one heart and one mind; be united and
forge ahead; greet the autonomous regional 30th founding
anniversary with outstanding accomplishments; work hard; and wage
arduous struggles to facilitate a healthy, rapid, and sustained
development [Chinese: jian kang kuai su chi xu fa zhan] of TibetUs
economy and bring about all-round social progress.  The meeting
also unanimously adopted a resolution on the implementation of
TibetUs economic and social development plans in 1993 and on the
plans of TibetUs economic and social development in 1994; adopted
a resolution on TibetUs final financial accounts in 1993 and on
TibetUs budget in 1994; adopted a resolution on a Tibet Autonomous
Regional PeopleUs Congress Standing Committee work report; adopted
a resolution on an autonomous regional higher peopleUs court work
report; and adopted a resolution on an autonomous regional
peopleUs procuratorate work report.  Raidi, executive chairman of
the session and chairman of the autonomous regional peopleUs
congress, delivered an important speech at the meeting.  He said:
The second session of the Sixth Tibet Autonomous Regional PeopleUs
Congress has strictly stressed the central topics regarding
stability, reform and development; has paid close attention to the
overall situation of seizing opportunities, deepening reform,
opening up wider to the outside world, enhancing development and
maintaining stability; and has fully promoted the spirit of
democracy, unity, motivational atmosphere and realism [min zhu
tuan jie gu jin qiu shi]. All the deputies have liberated their
minds, sought truth from facts, freely expressed their views,
pooled the massesU wisdom and earnestly deliberated and adopted a
government work report delivered by Chairman Gyaincain Norbu and
various other items of the sessionUs agenda. The meeting has
further specified the guiding ideologies, basic guiding principles
and major missions for us to perform TibetUs work in 1994.
Comrade Raidi pointed out: The key to implementing the sessionUs
guidelines is to correctly handle relations among stability,
reform and development. While maintaining stability, we should
strive to enhance reform and development; and should, in turn,
promote social stability with enhanced reform and development.
Stability is the prerequisite, reform is the driving force and
development is the foundation. All three are supplementary and
complimentary to one another. We definitely cannot pay more
attention to one while neglecting the others.  He said: The year
1994 is crucial for Tibet to conduct comprehensive reform, to
advance forward in an all-around manner, to make major
breakthroughs in certain aspects and to accelerate its pace of
establishing a socialist market economy. We should unwaveringly
uphold the basic line of one central task and two basic points,
earnestly implement various session resolutions, seize favourable
opportunities, deepen reform, accelerate development and maintain
stability.  At present, Tibet has political stability, stable
popular support, social stability, unity among nationalities and a
solid border defence. However, many unstable factors still exist.
Particularly, domestic and foreign splittist elements have ganged
up with international hostile forces. They are intensitying, in
every possible way, their splittist and sabotaging activities. We
must thoroughly launch antisplittist struggles; must sternly crack
down on various splittist activities; and must make vigorous
efforts to safeguard the motherlandUs unification, to strengthen
unity among nationalities, to protect TibetUs political stability
and to ensure smooth progress in TibetUs economic construction,
reform and opening up.  Raidi pointed out: At present, the
principal tasks for peopleUs congresses at various levels in Tibet
are earnestly to implement the sessionUs guidelines, to take into
account TibetUs realities while continually keeping close contacts
with the realities of life and conducting investigations and
studies, to rally efforts to establish a socialist market economy,
to develop TibetUs economy, to launch antisplittist struggles, to
maintain political stability, to strengthen legislative work, to
publicize general legal knowledge, to upgrade law-enforcement, to
further improve the system of peopleUs congress and to fully
protect the democratic rights of people who are masters of their
own affairs and destiny. Leading cadres at various levels must
further improve their understanding, change their workstyles and
perform realistic tasks.  Comrade Raidi eventually expressed his
hope: After returning to their respective posts, all the deputies
should continually publicize the sessionUs guidelines; implement
the sessionUs resolutions; and accomplish new results in enhancing
reform, opening up, economic construction, social stability,
democracy and the legal system in Tibet.  At 1640 [0840 gmt], the
second session of the Sixth Tibet Autonomous Regional PeopleUs
Congress closed victoriously amidst the rousing national anthem.
[Video shows all attendees standing at attention while the
recorded national anthem is being played.]

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3) Tibet TV: separatists and antiseparatists in serious political
struggle
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Summary: commentary hails successful conclusion of Tibet people's
congress and CPPCC sessions; says practical measures now required
to implement guidelines of sessions Rwe should make reform the top
priority of the overall situationU Rit is imperative to launch an
in-depth struggle against separatism. The struggle between
separatists and antiseparatists is a serious political struggle
concerning the vital interests of the Chinese people of all
nationalities including the TibetansU- Rseparatist forces inside
and outside the territory have stepped up collusion with hostile
forces abroadS; RSeparatist activities remain the main factor
undermining TibetUs stability. The struggle between separatists
and antiseparatists will be protracted acute and complexS.

Tibet TV Lhasa in Standard Chinese 1200 gmt 24 May 94 BBC SWB 27
May 1994

Text of commentary: Rlmplement the guidelines of the two
session.$ions promote development and stability  congratulating
the successful conclusion of the second session of the sixth
regional peopleUs congress and the second session of the sixth
Chinese PeopleUs Political Consultative Conference regional
committeeS The second sessions of the sixth regional peopleUs
congress and the sixth Chinese PeopleUs Political Consultative
Conference [CPPCC] regional committee, which have attracted the
attention of the people of all nationalities in Tibet,
successfully concluded after completing all items on their
respective agendas. Guided by Comrade Deng XiaopingUs theory of
building socialism with Chinese characteristics and by the partyUs
basic line, peopleUs congress deputies and CPPCC members focused
their attention on the overall situation of reform, development
and stability; displayed the spirit of democracy and awareness of
participating in the discussion and administration of state
affairs; diligently examined and deliberated the government work
report and other reports with a profound sense of responsibility
as masters of the region; and offered suggestions jointly to lay
the general principles for TibetUs construction. As a result,
these two sessions are congregations of democracy, realism, unity
and courageous advance.  The deputies and members highly evaluated
Chairman Gyaincain NorbuUs government work report. They said: The
report realistically affirmed last yearUs achievements while
identifying with a cool head difficulties and problems on the road
of advance. The clearly defined fighting goal and arrangements, as
well as effective measures for the work of this year, accord with
realities in Tibet, reflect the vital interests and aspirations of
the people of all nationalities in the region and will certainly
inspire cadres and people of all nationalities to work hard and
confidently and to strive to fulfil the various tasks laid by the
sessions for Tibet.  The general principles and tasks for TibetUs
work for this year have been set and clarified. What is important
now is their implementation. All localities and departments should
earnestly transmit and study the two sessionsU guidelines; should
familiarize themselves with the government work report and other
relevant reports; and, in the light of reality, should summarize
and check last yearUs work on the basis of the guidelines. We
should recognize our achievements to strengthen our confidence and
fighting spirit, as well as our shortcomings and detects to
enhance the sense of urgency and try our utmost to catch up with
other provinces and regions. We should judge the hour and size up
the situation, correctly analysing the situation and work
conditions and broadening our vision to formulate fighting goals
and tasks that can be achieved through hard work. We should work
out practical and effective measures to translate the sessionsU
guidelines into concrete actions of the people of all
nationalities.    Promoting a sushined, rapid and healthy growth
of the regional economy was one of the main topics discussed in
the two sessions, as well as the central task to which we must pay
close attention. Reform is the powerful motive force for
development. In recent years, Tibet has seized the opportunity for
deepening reform and opening up wider, thereby promoting economic
and social development and maintaining political stability. This
year is crucial for Tibet in carrying out comprehensive reform, to
combine package reform programmes with breakthroughs in key areas
and to accelerate the establishment of a socialist market economic
system. In accordance with the unified arrangements made by the
peopleUs congress session, we should make reform the top priority
of the overall situation, strengthen the intensity of reform, work
out well-conceived plans for implementation and instill new
vitality into the reform programmes aimed at establishing a new
socialist market economic system and achieving a sustained
development of the economy.  Changing the operating mechanisms,
optimizing the structure, improving the management, popularizing
technological advances and increasing labour productivity are the
starting points as well as the basis of our economic work. We
should further strengthen the position of agriculture and animal
husbandry as the foundation of the regional economy; develop
village and township enterprises; increase incomes of peasants and
herdsmen; step up energy, transportation, communications and other
infrastructure construction; and continue to implement the
regulations [for changing the operating mechanisms of large and
medium state enterprises] to reinvigorate enterprises to carry out
more successfully this yearUs economic tasks through the efforts
of all circles and to fulfil and overfulfil the fighting goal of
an 8 % increase in TibetUs gross regional product.  We should
adhere to the principle of t;firmly grasping two links at the same
time in further stabilizing the situation and creating favourable
conditions and a healthy social environment for deepening reform
and accelerating development. This is an important matter to which
we must always pay close attention. The two sessions affirmed
TibetUs achievements and successful experiences in promoting
stability and forwarded measures for promoting greater stability.
To promote stability further, it is imperative to launch an
in-depth struggle against separatism. The struggle between
separatists and antiseparatists is a serious political struggle
concerning the vital interests of the Chinese people of all
nationalities, including the Tibetans. Under the new situation,
separatist forces inside and outside the territory have stepped up
collusion with hostile forces abroad, continuously readjusting
their strategy and tactics and intensitying activities to split
the motherland. Separatist activities remain the main factor
undermining TibetUs stability. The struggle between separatists
and antiseparatists will be protracted, acute and complex. We
should keep a cool head without the slightest lowering of our
guard, correctly analyse the situation, actively carry out work,
ensure effective propaganda and education with clear objectives in
mind, reply on grass roots organizations and mobilize and organize
the masses to take part voluntarily in the struggle against
separatism. Moreover, we should use the power of the peopleUs
democratic dictatorship to strike resolutely at separatist
activities. Meanwhile, we should harshly punish criminal offenders
and go all out to strengthen the comprehensive management of
social security and to improve public order in Tibet.  The new
situation, arduous tasks and the peopleUs expectations demand
leading cadres at all levels to study conscientiously, to change
their style and to work hard. We must thoroughly study Comrade
Deng XiaopingUs theory of building socialism with Chinese
characteristics and the partyUs line, principles and policies; we
should study information regarding market economy and other
fields; and we should further emancipate our minds and update our
concepts. We should skillfully integrate theory with practice, be
bold in practice and innovation and carry out our work creatively.
We should be sober minded and attach great importance to studying
new circumstances and problems cropping up in the process of
deepening reform, pay attention to problems that are latent and
still in the embryonic stage and take active measures to solve
them. We should bring into play the spirit of hard work, go down
to the grass roots regularly to mingle with the masses and to
listen attentively to their voices and demands, carry out
effective propaganda and education and solve practical problems
for the masses. We should popularize the massesU advanced
experiences and examples in reform, opening up, developing the
economy and promoting stability; and should channel the enthusiasm
of all circles to deepen reform, promote development and maintain
stability.  The realization of the comparatively well-off stage
before the end of this century will present us with a more
beautiful future. However this stage will not arrive in Tibet
automatically. Under the kind concern of the central authorities
and the support of all fraternal nationalities, we should rely on
the people of all nationalities in Tibet; bring into play the
spirit of hard struggle; and work assiduously, creatively and in a
down-to-earth manner. Beginning today, we should further
strengthen unity, heighten our spirits and pool the efforts of all
to realize the magnificent plan formulated by the two sessions so
as to march towards and realize the comparatively well-off stage
with expeditious and solid steps.

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4) Raidi briefs regional leaders on Racute and complex
antisplittit struggle
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Summary: Tibet party Secretary Chen Kuiyuan chairs regional
conference of leading party-member cadres; Deputy Secretary Raidi
speaks on fight against splittism, says situation on the whole
Rsatisfactory, but Rowing to their class nature... hostile forces
in the world and separatists at home and abroad will never accept
their defeat willinglyS and Rwill do everything they can to
intensify their splittist activitiesU RThe antisplittist situation
we are now facing is therefore still a severe one, and the mission
we have to carry out is a formidable oneS; leaders must be
Rvigilant in peace timeS and understand the Racute and complex
antisplittist struggle we are now facingU RWe must take the
necessary precautionary measures against what might occurS;
RLeading cadres must firmly and unequivocally handle major issues
of principle; full rein must be given Rto the special roles played
by patriots and religious leaders of all nationalities in all
quarters in fighting splittism and in stabilizing the situation R.


Tibet TV, Lhasa, in Standard Chinese 1200 gmt 23 May 94 BBC SWB 27
May 1994

Text of report

A regional conference attended by leading party-member cadres of
provincial- and prefectural-level departments took place at the
Hall of the Tibetan People on the afternoon of 22nd May.
Leading comrades of the regional party committee, the regional
peopleUs congress, the regional government and the regional
committee of the Chinese PeopleUs Political Consultative
Conference attended the meeting which was chaired by regional
party committee secretary Chen Kuiyuan. [Video shows close-ups of
Chen and other regional leaders sitting at a long table at the end
of a hall.] Comrade Raidi, executive deputy secretary of the
regional party committee, gave a speech on the situation regarding
TibetUs fight against splittism and the work to do in stabilizing
the situation. [Video shows close-up of Raidi reading from
prepared notes, close-ups of Chen Kuiyuan and other Tibetan
leaders perusing RaidiUs report.] He said: On the whole, TibetUs
fight against splittism is satisfactory. The region is politically
and socially stable, people of all nationalities are united and
the defence is strong along border areas. This has created a
social environment good for reform, opening up and economic
construction; and good for improving peopleUs livelihood. Owing to
their class nature, however, hostile forces in the world and
separatists at home and abroad will never accept their defeat
willingly. They will continue to do everything they can to
intensify their splittist activities. The antisplittist situation
we are now facing is therefore still a severe one and the mission
we have to carry out is a formidable one.    Raidi said: All party
and government organizations and we, as leading cadres, must be
vigilant in peace time [Chinese: ju an si wei]. We must have a
clear understanding of the problems and the acute and complex
antisplittist struggle we are now facing. We must have a clear
idea of the situation, and know our assignments and carry them out
properly. We must take the necessary precautionary measures
against what might occur.  Raidi emphatically pointed out:
Leadership is critical for stabilizing the situation. The regional
party committee expects that top party and government leaders as
well as all units will take personal charge of the work of
stabilizing the situation, regularly study the situation and
problems in their respective areas and units and come up with
plans with which they can lead the vast number of cadres and
workers to fight splittism. Leading cadres must firmly and
unequivocally handle major issues of principles.  To ensure
TibetUs stability and the normal and healthy development of
reform, opening up and economic construction, Raidi urged party
committees and governments at all levels to unite all forces that
can be united, mobilize the initiative of all social quarters,
and, on the basis of closely relying on the masses, build a
stronger patriotic united front and give full rein to the special
roles played by patriots and religious leaders of all
nationalities in all quarters in fighting splittism and in
stabilizing the situation.  [Video shows close-ups of Gyaincain
Norbu, chairman of the Tibetan regional government, reading from a
prepared speech.] Expressing his views on economic affairs,
regional government chairman Gyaincain Norbu said: Since the
beginning of the year, government organs at all levels,
implementing the guidelines laid down by the fifth enlarged
plenary session of the fourth Tibet regional party committee and
by the regional economic conference, have intensified their reform
efforts and opened wider to the outside world, and have achieved
preliminary results in developing the economy. Compared with the
same period last year, growth has been registered in all sectors -
agriculture, animal husbandry, industry, communications and
transportation, capital construction, foreign trade, tourism,
taxation and banking. We have achieved the expected results. This
yearUs reform projects require great efforts because the scope is
broad, the standards are high, problems t be resolved are many and
the assignments are heavy. To make sure that all reform projects
are carried out successfully, we must stand firm in launching
reform, fully understand what has to be done, educate the masses
about reform and make genuine efforts to speed up reform.
Gyaincain Norbu also put forward requirements for accomplishing
various production projects, making adequate arrangements for what
the massesU needs in their daily life, intensifying the
preparations for [word indistinct construction projects, improving
work style and promoting planned parenthood.  Those attending the
meeting also heard a report given by Comrade Zi Cheng, member of
the regional party committee standing committee and secretary of
its politics and law committee, on the situation regarding public
order and the fight against splittism. [Video shows close-ups of
Zi Cheng reading from prepared notes.1 In conclusion, Comrade Chen
Kuiyuan stressed that the meeting was significant for Tibet in
deepening reform, speeding up development and maintaining
stability. He said all prefectures, cities and departments must
earnestly implement its guidelines. [Video shows close-up of Chen
speaking from the mid-position at an end table. Gyaincain Norbu
and Zi Cheng are seen sitting on his right, and Raidi and Basang
on his left.

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5) Tibet: Rinitial successesS in anticorruption drive
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TXizang RibaoU, Lhasa, in 8 May 94 BBC SWB 27 May 1994

Text of report

Thanks to earnest, resolute and concrete action, the majority of
localities and departments in Tibet have recently scored initial
successes in the three tasks of the anticorruption drive.    In
line with the RDecision on several tasks to be seriously carried
out in the anticorruption drive in the near futureS, adopted by
the party Central Committee and the State Council and with the
guidelines of the second plenary session of the Central Discipline
Inspection Commission, the regional party committee and regional
government, as well as the regional discipline inspection
commission and regional supervision department, mapped out
specific plans for intensifying the anticorruption drive and
promoting the construction of party work style and a clean
government. Party committees and governments at all levels have
attached great importance to the anticorruption drive, adopting a
resolute attitude and taking prompt action; while large numbers of
party members and cadres and the masses have energetically
supported and actively participated in the drive. As a result,
certain achievements have been made in the fight against
corruption.  These achievements are manifested in the following:
Leading cadres have earnestly carried out self examination and
made prompt correction in accordance with the five requirements
for clean standards and self discipline. To ensure a good job of
self-examination and correction, all prefectures (cities) and
departments held democratic meetings, during which leading cadres
voluntarily accepted supervision by the masses. According to
incomplete statistics, as of the end of 1993, 76% of leading
cadres at and above the county (section) level had conducted
self-examination and correction and found problems in the
following aspects: While screening economic entities affiliated
with party and government organizations and concurrent jobs held
by party and government cadres, some found themselves to have been
involved in compensated intermediate activities, or sightseeing
trips in a disguised way outside the country (territory). A fairly
large number of party and government cadres found themselves to
have taken part in gambling or accepting dinner invitations,
gifts, or cash while attending weddings or funerals or performing
official duties. A number of cases involving violations of the law
and discipline were investigated. As of the end of 1993,
discipline inspection and supervision organs in the region had
received a total of 681 tips on such cases from the masses. Of
these, 349 were accepted initially. After investigation and
verification, 58 persons were punished according to party and
administrative discipline; and 10 were turned over to the judicial
organ for further investigation of their criminal
responsibilities. As a result, the state and collectives recovered
1.145m yuan in economic losses. Meanwhile, quite a few departments
and units took the initiative to investigate and solve some
serious problems reported by the masses.  To lighten the burdens
on farmers and herdsmen at large, fees collected by various
localities and departments were also screened. After screening 177
fees and the standards of 1,337 fees, a total of 1.761m yuan was
found to have been collected in violation of discipline and were
turned over to the treasury. As a result of the screening, the
regional government abolished 31 unreasonable fees, while various
prefectural (city) governments abolished 216 unreasonable fees.

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Issue ID: 94/05/27 12:00 GMT

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1.   Clinton Renews MFN Despite Appalling Human Rights Conditions
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Forwarded by: CTC National Office <[e-mail]>

For Immediate Release                        Contacts:
                                             John Ackerly
                                             Rachel Lostumbo
                                             [phone]

Clinton Renews MFN Despite Appalling Human Rights Conditions

President Cites Lack of Progress on Tibet Condition

     President Clinton today abandoned his policy of using
     China's Most Favored Nation trading status as leverage to
     promote the protection of Tibet's religious and cultural
     heritage, as well as human rights in China.  Instead he
     chose to renew China's trading privileges and offer a slap
     on the wrist by sanctioning imports into the United States
     of Chinese-made guns and ammunition.

     Tibet emerged as a condition which the U.S. found no
     progress to have been made, a fact which clearly
     frustrated U.S. officials.  The President specifically
     cited lack of progress in Tibet, which he said was marked
     by "repression of Tibet's religious and cultural
     traditions."  Top State Department officials in recent
     weeks have said that there had been no progress on meeting
     the Tibet condition.

     "We deeply regret the President's decisions and are very
     concerned that it could demoralize Tibetans and Chinese
     who are struggling for democracy and freedoms." said Lodi
     Gyari, President of the International Campaign for Tibet.
     "However, we have been assured by Administration officials
     that the President remains committed to helping the
     Tibetan people, and to supporting negotiations between the
     Dalai Lama and Chinese leaders."

     In a statement following President Clinton's MFN
     announcement, National Security Advisor Anthony Lake
     expressed the Administration's disappointment that China
     refused to respond to the Dalai Lama's efforts to begin
     negotiations and stated that this "item remains very much
     on the [U.S.] agenda."  He further stated that the
     Administration was disturbed by China's actions in Tibet
     with regards to the Tibetan culture and people.

     "The mixed messages being sent from different factions in
     the U.S. Administration, coupled with the intense lobbying
     efforts of American businesses foiled any prospects for
     concessions on Tibet during the last year," Mr. Gyari
     said.

     The President's decision is viewed by many as the loss of
     an historic opportunity for the U.S. and the President to
     hasten fundamental change in China and Tibet.  The
     International Campaign for Tibet believes that the package
     policies announced by the President fails as an effective
     human rights policy.  The President's decision falls far
     short of his stated commitment that human rights and
     democracy is one of the four pillars of his foreign
     policy.

     "While the U.S. Congress has provided significant support
     to Tibetans, the Administration's decision today continues
     a dangerous policy initiated in the early 1970s of
     supporting the regime which militarily occupied Tibet, and
     represses its own people," Lodi Gyari says.

     Tibetan Government in exile representative, Rinchen
     Dharlo, said today that "we are very disappointed that the
     President did not follow thorough with his MFN Executive
     Order, but hope that he will not back down in his efforts
     to promote a resolution to the Tibetan problem."

Congressional Response

     Members of Congress, including top democratic leaders
     Gephardt, Pelosi and Bonior, announced that they would
     introduce legislation to compensate for the weakness for
     the President's decision.

        Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Chairman of the Senate
        Finance Committee, said in a written statement on
        Tuesday, "we who are friends of Tibet must continue to
        insist-- in the strongest terms-- that negotiations
        between representatives of the Dalai Lama and high
        ranking Chinese officials soon begin."

     With the lever of MFN abandoned, the Administration is now
     obligated to design other ways to promote substantive
     support for Tibet including the process of negotiations.
     Representative Lee Hamilton, Chairman of the House Foreign
     Affairs Committee said today, the "President has a variety
     of diplomatic tools at his disposal to promote US
     objectives particularly on ... a dialogue on Tibet.  I am
     confident that he will do so."

Human Rights Conditions in Tibet

     Since Last May when President Clinton signed his Executive
     Order conditions in Tibet have not improved, and in some
     cases they have regressed:

*       In early May, 1994 China announced a new set of
regulations aimed at silencing political dissent.  One regulation,
clearly aimed at the Tibetans, states that "punishments will now
be handed out for...stirring up conflicts between nationalities,
hurting the unity of nationalities and inciting separation of
nationalities."

*  In 1993 there was a sharp increase in political prisoners in
Tibet.  In Lhasa alone there are now over 400 prisoners of
conscience, a more than 30% increase from 1992.  About half are
Buddhist monks and nuns.
*       The influx of Chinese settlers and entrepreneurs into
Tibet continues at an alarming pace, marginalizing Tibetans
socially, economically and politically.

                              # # #

The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) is a Washington-based Tibet
monitoring and advocacy group.  Established in 1988 as a non--profit
organization, ICT promotes human rights and democratic freedoms for Tibetans.
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1. International Campaign for Tibet Responds to MFN Renewal (Updated)
1.2  Urgent Action on MFN Renewal
2. China Offers to Enter into Dialogue with the US on Human Rights
3. China Agrees to End Jamming of VOA Broadcasts
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1. International Campaign for Tibet Responds to MFN Renewal

 Clinton Renews MFN Despite Appalling Human Rights Conditions
President Cites Lack of Progress on Tibet Condition

WASHINGTON D.C., May 26,(Press Release - ICT)
[contact John Ackerly / Rachel Lostumbo  [phone]]
        President Clinton today abandoned his policy of using
        China's Most Favored Nation trading status as leverage to
        promote the protection of Tibet's religious and cultural
        heritage, as well as human rights in China.  Instead he
        chose to renew China's trading privileges and offer a slap
        on the wrist by sanctioning imports into the United States
        of Chinese-made guns and ammunition.

        Tibet emerged as a condition on which the U.S. found no
        progress to have been made, a fact which clearly
        frustrated U.S. officials.  The President specifically
        cited lack of progress in Tibet, which he said was marked
        by "repression of Tibet's religious and cultural
        traditions."  Top State Department officials in recent
        weeks have said that there had been no progress on meeting
        the Tibet condition.

        "We deeply regret the President's decision and are very
        concerned that it could demoralize Tibetans and Chinese
        who are struggling for democracy and freedom." said Lodi
        Gyari, President of the International Campaign for Tibet.
        "However, we have been assured by Administration officials
        that the President remains committed to helping the
        Tibetan people, and to supporting negotiations between the
        Dalai Lama and Chinese leaders."

        In a statement following President Clinton's MFN
        announcement, National Security Advisor Anthony Lake
        expressed the Administration's disappointment that China
        refused to respond to the Dalai Lama's efforts to begin
        negotiations and stated that this "item remains very much
        on the [U.S.] agenda."  He further stated that the
        Administration was disturbed by China's actions in Tibet
        with regards to the Tibetan culture and people.

        "The mixed messages being sent from different factions in
        the U.S. Administration, coupled with the intense lobbying
        efforts of American businesses foiled any prospects for
        concessions on Tibet during the last year," Mr. Gyari
        said.

        The President's decision marks the loss of an historic
        opportunity for the U.S. and the President to hasten
        fundamental change in China and Tibet.  The International
        Campaign for Tibet believes that the policy package
        announced by the President fails to represent an effective
        tool to influence China's human rights practices.  The
        President's decision falls far short of his stated
        commitment to human rights and democracy as one of the
        pillars of his foreign policy.

        "While the U.S. Congress has provided significant support
        to Tibetans, the Administration's decision today continues
        a dangerous policy initiated in the early 1970s of supporting the
        regime which militarily occupied Tibet, and represses its own
        people," Mr. Gyari said.

        Tibetan Government in exile representative, Rinchen
        Dharlo, said today that "we are very disappointed that the
        President did not follow thorough with his MFN Executive
        Order, but hope that he will not back down in his efforts
        to promote a resolution to the Tibetan problem."

        In strong statements, members of Congress, including top
        democratic leaders Gephardt, Pelosi and Bonior, announced
        that they would introduce legislation to in response to
        the President's weak and disappointing decision.  "We
        applaud the determination and integrity of these
        congressional leaders," remarked Mr. Gyari.

        Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Chairman of the Senate
        Finance Committee, said in a written statement on Tuesday,
        "we who are friends of Tibet must continue to insist-- in
        the strongest terms-- that negotiations between
        representatives of the Dalai Lama and high ranking Chinese
        officials soon begin."

        With the lever of MFN abandoned, the Administration is now
        obligated to design other ways to promote substantive
        support for Tibet including the process of negotiations.
        Representative Lee Hamilton, Chairman of the House Foreign
        Affairs Committee said today, the "President has a variety
        of diplomatic tools at his disposal to promote US
        objectives particularly on ... a dialogue on Tibet.  I am
        confident that he will do so."

Human Rights Conditions in Tibet
        Since Last May when President Clinton signed his Executive
        Order conditions in Tibet have not improved, and in some
        cases they have regressed:

*       In early May, 1994 China announced a new set of
regulations aimed at silencing political dissent.  One regulation,
clearly aimed at the Tibetans, states that "punishments will now
be handed out for...stirring up conflicts between nationalities,
hurting the unity of nationalities and inciting separation of
nationalities."

*  In 1993 there was a sharp increase in political prisoners in
Tibet.  In Lhasa alone there are now over 400 prisoners of
conscience, a more than 30% increase from 1992.  About half are
Buddhist monks and nuns.

*       The influx of Chinese settlers and entrepreneurs into
Tibet continues at an alarming pace, marginalizing Tibetans
socially, economically and politically.

# # #

The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) is a Washington-based
Tibet monitoring and advocacy group.  Established in 1988 as a
non--profit organization, ICT promotes human rights and democratic
freedoms for Tibetans.

_____________________________________________________________________________
1.2     URGENT ACTION
        MAY 27, 1994


Please call or write your congressional Representative and
Senators to protest President Clinton's decision to
unconditionally renew China's Most-Favored-Nation trading status.
Express your disappointment that the President went back on his
word to hold China accountable for its brutal repression of the
Tibetan people, as well as his decision to delink to human rights
and trade for China.  Congress has the power to overturn President
Clinton's decision.  Ask them to support future legislation to
impose stiff MFN sanctions on China as a result to their lack of
progress in "protecting Tibet's religious and cultural heritage."

Write to:  Representative ________ U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC  20515

Senator _______ U.S. Senate Washington, DC  20510

or call the Capitol Switchboard and ask to be connected to your
Senators or Representative: [phone].

If you have any questions, please contact the International
Campaign for Tibet at [phone].
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2. China Offers to Enter in Dialogue on Human Rights with the US
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BYLINE=DAVID DYAR
Source: Voice of America

BEIJING, May 26, 1994
INTRO: A CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN HAS REPEATED AN
OFFER TO ENTER A DIALOGUE WITH THE UNITED STATES OVER
HUMAN-RIGHTS ISSUES.  DAVID DYAR REPORTS FROM BEIJING THE
SPOKESMAN'S REMARKS COME AS AN ANNOUNCEMENT IS EXPECTED FROM
WASHINGTON ON THE RENEWAL OF CHINA'S FAVORED TRADING
PRIVILEGES WITH THE UNITED STATES.

TEXT:  SPOKESMAN WU JIANMIN REPEATED THE OFFER FOR THE
DIALOGUE WHEN REPORTERS ASKED HIM IF CHINA WOULD ACCEPT THE
IDEA OF PARTICIPATING IN A COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS WITH
THE UNITED STATES.

SUCH A COMMISSION HAS BEEN PROPOSED BY SOME MEMBERS OF
CONGRESS TO BE INCLUDED AS PART OF PRESIDENT CLINTON'S
DECISION ON RENEWING CHINA'S MOST-FAVORED-NATION TRADING
STATUS.

MR. WU DID NOT COMMENT DIRECTLY ON THE COMMISSION IDEA.  HE
SAYS ANY  DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES WILL HAVE TO BE
ON THE BASIS OF EQUALITY.

THE SPOKESMAN REFUSES TO PREDICT WHAT BEIJING'S REACTION
WOULD BE IF PRESIDENT CLINTON ATTACHES CONDITIONS TO THE
M-F-N RENEWAL. HE SAYS CHINA WILL HAVE TO WAIT TO SEE THE
FULL TEXT OF THE DECISION BEFORE COMMENTING ON IT.

HOWEVER, HIS REMARKS CONTAIN LITTLE OF THE HARSH RHETORIC
CHINA HAS USED PREVIOUSLY ON THE ISSUE.  ALTHOUGH MR. WU
SAYS CHINA WILL NOT ACCEPT CONDITIONS ON THE RENEWAL OF THE
LOW-TARIFF TRADING STATUS, HE DID NOT MAKE ANY THREAT OF
RETALIATION.

HE SAYS WORK IS CONTINUING ON SEVERAL HUMAN-RIGHTS ISSUES
WHICH PRESIDENT CLINTON WANTS ADDRESSED AS PART OF THE M-F-N
RENEWAL.

THE SPOKESMAN SAYS THESE INCLUDE FURTHER MEETINGS WITH THE
INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS ON THE TREATMENT OF CHINESE
PRISONERS. HE SAYS TALKS ARE ALSO CONTINUING ON THE ISSUE OF
CHINESE RADIO INTERFERENCE ON THE VOICE OF AMERICA'S
SHORTWAVE FREQUENCIES.

MR. WU WAS ALSO ASKED ABOUT A PETITION SEVEN DISSIDENTS
CONNECTED WITH THE 1989 TIANANMAN SQUARE DEMOCRACY PROTESTS
SIGNED THURSDAY. THE PETITION ASKS THE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE
THE REMAINING PRISONERS BEING HELD FOR NON-VIOLENT ACTIONS
DURING THE PROTEST.

IT ALSO ASKS THE GOVERNMENT TO COMPENSATE THE FAMILIES OF
PROTESTERS KILLED BY ARMY TROOPS DURING THE DEMONSTRATION
AND TO STOP CALLING THE MOVEMENT A REBELLION TO TOPPLE THE
GOVERNMENT.

THE SPOKESMAN REPEATED COMMENTS MADE EARLIER BY CHINA'S
PRESIDENT THE GOVERNMENT WAS CORRECT IN USING FORCE TO END
THE DEMONSTRATIONS -- ENSURING CONTINUED STABILITY AND
PROSPERITY IN CHINA.  (SIGNED)

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3. Chinese Government Agrees to End Jamming of VOA Broadcasts
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Forwarded by: Debra Guzman ([e-mail])
BYLINE=DOUGLAS ROBERTS


DATELINE=STATE DEPARTMENT, May 26, 1994
INTRO:  THE U-S STATE DEPARTMENT HAS INDICATED THAT THE
CHINESE GOVERNMENT HAS AGREED TO END ITS JAMMING OF VOICE OF
AMERICA BROADCASTS.  DOUGLAS ROBERTS REPORTS THE MOVE WAS
REVEALED AS PRESIDENT CLINTON PREPARED TO ANNOUNCE HIS
DECISION ON RENEWAL OF CHINA'S MOST FAVORED NATION TRADE
STATUS.

TEXT:  U-S AND CHINESE TECHNICAL EXPERTS HAVE JUST COMPLETED
A WEEK OF TALKS IN BEIJING ON CHINESE INTERFERENCE WITH
V-O-A BROADCASTS.

BRIEFING REPORTERS ON THOSE TALKS HERE THURSDAY, STATE
DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN MICHAEL MCCURRY DECLINED TO DESCRIBE
THE INTERFERENCE AS "JAMMING", APPARENTLY IN DEFERENCE TO
BEIJING GOVERNMENT SENSITIVITIES.  BUT HE SAID THE TWO SIDES
HAVE REACHED AGREEMENT TO, AS HE PUT IT, DISENTANGLE (RADIO)
FREQUENCIES USED BY BOTH V-O-A AND CHINESE STATE RADIO.

MR MCCURRY SAID V-O-A BROADCASTS WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO
OTHER FREQUENCIES  NOT  CURRENTLY USED BY THE CHINESE.  HE
INDICATED THAT THE TWO SIDES WILL MEET AGAIN TO DISCUSS
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ARRANGEMENT THAT SHOULD RESULT IN
INTERFERENCE-FREE BROADCASTS BY THE OFFICIAL U-S NETWORK.

THAT WAS ONE OF THE GOALS SET FORTH IN PRESIDENT CLINTON'S
EXECUTIVE ORDER LAST YEAR, LINKING A RENEWAL OF CHINA'S U-S
TRADING PRIVILEGES TO IMPROVEMENTS IN BEIJING'S HUMAN RIGHTS
RECORD.
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Issue ID: WTN 94/05/27 17:45 GMT                Compiled by Nima Dorjee
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1. Clinton Reverses Course on China; MFN Action Separates Human Rights, Trade
2. Chinese Human Rights Activists Blast Clinton
3. China Trade Moves Hailed, Criticized in Congress
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1. Clinton Reverses Course on China; MFN Action Separates Human Rights, Trade
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By Ann Devroy
Washington Post Staff Writer
Source: Washington Post
Date: May 27, 1994

    President Clinton yesterday reversed course on China and renewed its trade
privileges despite what he said was Beijing's lack of significant progress on
human rights.
    Echoing the case made by George Bush when he was president, Clinton said he
was convinced the Chinese would take more steps to improve human rights if the
issue were separated from the threat of trade sanctions.
    "This decision offers us the best opportunity to lay the basis for long-term
sustainable progress on human rights and for the advancement of our other
interests with China," he said at a news conference announcing his decision to
extend China's most-favored-nation (MFN) trade status.
    To demonstrate what he stressed was his administration's continuing concern
about human rights in China, Clinton said he was banning the import of Chinese
munitions and taking several other small steps to support the pro-democracy
cause in China.
    But his action stopped well short of appeals by Senate Majority Leader
George J. Mitchell (D-Maine) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for selected
sanctions on some Chinese products as a way to penalize China for failing to
improve human rights. Both said they would introduce legislation that continues
a link between trade privileges and human rights improvements.
     "I disagree with the decision," Mitchell said of Clinton's move. "This
decision will confirm for the regime the success of its policy of repression on
human rights and manipulation on trade." Several other Democratic senators,
however, issued statements of support and said they would join Clinton in
Congress in resisting legislation to alter the trade status.
    Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) said that the decision reflected a key role China can
play in geopolitics, specifically "maintaining stability on the Korean peninsula
and preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons."
    Clinton had been the subject of heavy lobbying by American business
interests and his economic advisers to continue China's trade privileges. With
China now the world's fastest growing economy, the United States exports $8
billion a year there, which sustains up to 150,000 American jobs. Many major
American businesses see even greater potential in Chinese markets, expecting
China to become a massive purchaser over the next decade of the phones,
electronic gadgets and thousands of other products made in America.
    "I think we have to see our relations with China within a broader context"
than simply human rights, Clinton said, adding that the link between rights and
trade was no longer tenable. "We have reached the end of the usefulness of that
policy," he said.
    Human rights groups and a strong lobby in Congress had pressed Clinton to
adhere to the goal he set last year in an executive order that made renewal of
China's MFN status dependent on "overall significant progress" in human rights.
Clinton in his presidential campaign had sharply attacked Bush for extending
trade privileges to China in the years following the 1989 crackdown on
pro-democracy activists in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, accusing him of "coddling
criminals."
    But Clinton said yesterday he has had a change of heart. "Let me ask you the
same question I have asked myself," he said. "Will we do more to advance the
cause of human rights if China is isolated."
    What the United States policy should be, he added, is "to intensify and
broaden its relations" with Beijing, not isolate it. He acknowledged that the
one sanction he was imposing - the ban on imports of guns and ammunition from
China involving about $200 million in sales - constituted little more than a
"discrete" symbol of U.S. displeasure. Most weapons are made by the Peoples
Liberation Army, agent of the 1989 crackdown that set off congressional calls
for revoking China's trade status.
    The other measures he announced include increased broadcasts for Radio-Free
Asia and the Voice of America, increased support for non-governmental
organizations working on human rights in China and the development with U.S.
business leaders of a voluntary set of principles for business activity in
China.
         Clinton's decision came after an intensive, sometimes fractious, debate
within the administration over what steps to take and how. At one point, the
president was leaning toward extending the trade privileges, but putting
sanctions on a range of military-made products. The Treasury and Defense
departments vehemently objected, and from the outset the president's economic
advisers argued that trade and human rights should not be linked.
    In assessing China's human rights record over the past year, Secretary of
State Warren Christopher reported to Clinton earlier this week that China had
made progress in allowing emigration and had begun complying with an agreement
that produces investigations of the use of prison labor in making Chinese goods.
    But Christopher also concluded that the Chinese had not made progress in
complying with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in providing an
acceptable accounting for political and religious prisoners and in treating them
humanely. He also found no change in China's repression of Tibet and no end to
China's jamming broadcasts by the Voice of America.

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2. Chinese Human Rights Activists blast Clinton
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By RUTH YOUNGBLOOD
   BEIJING, May 27 (UPI) -- Chinese human rights advocates slammed Friday U.S.
President Bill Clinton's renewal of China's most-favored-nation status as a huge
victory for Beijing while leaving outspoken dissidents "more vulnerable to
persecution and arrest."
   U.S. business leaders, meanwhile, praised the decision and predicted it would
help to open the door to investment in China.
   In a statement released in China's capital, the New York-based Human Rights
Watch-Asia said Clinton "has effectively removed all pressure on China to
improve its human rights practices."
   Clinton announced in Washington Thursday he was renewing the low- tariff
privileges for another year. At the same time, he severed MFN renewal from
China's human rights record.
   In acknowledging "China continues to commit very serious human rights
abuses," Clinton banned Chinese exports of arms and ammunition to the United
States, projected to total $200 million in 1994.
   He also extended U.S. sanctions put in place following the 1989 crackdown on
pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, including the denial of
participation in the U.S. Trade and Development Assistance Program, U.S.
opposition to non-basic human needs loans by the World Bank and suspension of
weapons deliveries.
   It was a considerable turnaround from Clinton's executive order last year in
which he threatened to yank China's trade privileges unless Beijing made
"overall significant progress" in seven areas.
   "By any yardstick, the human rights situation in China has deteriorated in
the last year," said Human Rights Watch, noting more than 100 political and
religious activists have been arrested, compared with three dozen prisoners
released.
   Executive Director Sidney Jones said the decision left Clinton's
administration "looking vacillating and hypocritical while the Chinese
leadership, by contrast, has emerged as hard-nosed, uncompromising and
victorious."
   The ban on arms and ammunition imports from the Peoples Liberation Army is
good for "gun control, not human rights pressure," Jones said. "The only big
winner from this decision is the Chinese government."
   The organization warned outspoken intellectuals, workers, and religious
leaders who had the courage to express their views that they might now be more
vulnerable to persecution and arrest, "given that Chinese leaders understand
that a crackdown would not bring about a disruption of trade."
   In Hong Kong, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Frank Martin said,  "I think
you'll now see a sigh of relief and companies will get on with their strategic
planning for their future investments and future trade with China.
   "Some individual firms have been holding back on their investments, waiting
to see what would happen with MFN," Martin said.
   Hong Kong, traditionally viewed as the West's gateway to China, would have
lost billions of dollars in trade and shipping had the MFN status been revoked.
   Martin said Clinton's restriction on arms exports should not be blown out of
proportion compared with the significance of MFN renewal.
   The Chamber of Commerce has been a leading proponent of unconditional MFN and
led several lobbying missions to Washington.
   China exports goods worth nearly $30 billion a year to the United States,
which in turn sells China more than $8 billion supporting more than 150,000 U.S.
jobs.
   Clinton said in Washington he agreed with U.S. Secretary of State Warren
Christopher that there was progress in two areas the administration considered
mandatory to retain MFN designation -- halting the export of goods to the United
States made by prison labor and opening emigration for families of exiled
dissidents.
   China also was to show significant progress in five other areas: accounting
for political prisoners, allowing Red Cross visits to prisons, easing repression
in Tibet, adhering to the International Declaration of Human Rights, and ending
the jamming of the Voice of America.
   Clinton said his decision took into account the vast Chinese market that
holds so much promise for U.S. products, as well as China's critical role on the
U.N. Security Council and its nuclear arms stockpile.
   "Our relation with China is important to all Americans," Clinton said. "I
believe the course I have chosen gives us the best chance for success on all
fronts."
   Clinton said isolating China is not the way to go and progress already made
by the communist giant prompted him to believe it was better to engage China on
such questions as the detention of dissidents and repression in Tibet.
   "This is not about forgetting about human rights," Clinton stressed. "This is
about what is the best way" to fix the abuses.
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3.  CHINA TRADE MOVES HAILED, CRITICIZED IN CONGRESS
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    By William Scally
     WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuter) - Key members of Congress hailed President
Clinton's decision to break the link between U.S. trade with China and human
rights issues, but some top Democrats reacted with dismay.
     In the Senate, Clinton found an ally in Republican Leader Bob Dole of
Kansas, who said the president had "done the right thing" and
hoped "this annual frenzied ritual of threatening to withdraw
(Most Favoured Nation status) for China will finally cease."
     But Democratic Leader George Mitchell of Maine said the decision "will
confirm for the Chinese communist regime the success of its
policy of repression on human rights and manipulation of trade."
     Mitchell, who spearheaded efforts to attach conditions on Most Favoured
Nation (MFN) during the administration of President George Bush,
said he planned to introduce legislation "which will be more
likely to encourage the Chinese government to improve its
practices on trade and human rights."
     The Democratic Leader in the House of Representatives, Richard Gephardt of
Missouri, took the same line. He and Democratic Whip David Bonior of Michigan
said they would be working with Mitchell on legislation.
     The Bush administration and the Democrat-controlled Congress had a running
feud over China policy, and Bush twice vetoed bills to attach
conditions to MFN. In each case, the Senate was unable to override the veto.
     Montana Democratic Senator Max Baucus, chairman of a Senate Finance trade
panel who has been a champion of renewed Chinese MFN, said he believed it
unlikely that Democrats would embarrass a president of their own party over
China policy.
     Baucus told reporters he did not believe a conditions bill would be
vigorously pushed in Congress and in any case it "wouldn't come close to
passing" in the Senate where Democrats Sam Nunn of Georgia Bill Bradley of New
Jersey lined up behind Clinton.
     The House in the past has been tougher on China, and introduction of a
resolution overturning the MFN renewal may be introduced. Even if the House
approved such a resolution, it would stand no chance in the Senate.
     As for legislation imposing conditions, this would face some difficult
hurdles in key committees. The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee,
Democrat Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois, and likely successor Sam Gibbons of
Florida, should Rostenkowski step aside, welcomed Clinton's decision.
     And Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Lee Hamilton, an Indiana Democrat,
said it "represents sound policy and reflects a clear understanding of U.S.
interests in China and how best to achieve them."
     Mitchell, in his statement, did not describe his planned legislation.
     However, at an earlier news conference he said he favoured sanctions
targeted against state-owned companies and said the growing U.S. trade deficit
with China, now at $23 billion, was due mainly to illegal trade practices.
     Gephardt, who takes a hard line on trade, said that because of China's
trade surplus, the United States could deliver "the loudest message" by
attaching conditions.
     Other longtime China critics attacking the MFN decision
included California Democrat Nancy Pelosi, who said she would not
abandon prisoners of conscience in China and Tibet, and New
Jersey Republican Chris Smith, who has for years campaigned
against China's human rights and population policies.
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ISSUE ID: 94/05/27 18:00 GMT            Compiled by Nima Dorjee
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1. Letters from WTN Readers on MFN Renewal
2. Reactions to MFN ... (from China News Digest)
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1. Letters from WTN Readers on MFN Renewal
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From: "Mike Kestell" <[e-mail]>


  OFFICE MEMO          Venting Over The Vote                  Date:5/27/94

Greetings !!

Speaking as a private American citizen, I wanted to tell you personally how
disgusted I am with the actions of our president.  You have to understand
that in this country money talks and it has talked to Mr. Clinton loud and
clear.  The business lobby and Chinese interests were too much to ignore.
Rest assured there are a lot of very angry people here who don't believe in
'trickle down' democracy and strongly support the Tibetan people in their
struggle against Chinese occupation.  At times like this I am ashamed to be
an American.  I apologize to you for the inconscionable actions of our
Government.

I notice that the PRC has complained about the provision to ban the sale of
hand guns and assault rifles in the US (!?!) and, less than twelve hours
after the MFN action, has expelled nearly half the foreign press corps in
Beijing and banned foreign journalists from speaking to Chinese nationals.
There's the slap in the face.  I hope Clinton and Christopher have a good
night sleep tonight.

As chairman of the Minnesota Chapter of the US Tibet Committee, I want you to
know that we will continue the fight for Tibetan independence, the
preservation of Tibetan culture, and universal human rights in Tibet.
Tonight the Twin Cities are hosting monks from the Drepung Loseling monastery
in a chanting ceremony and we will take the opportunity to initiate a letter
writing campaign to our local representatives to support new leglislation by
Senator Mitchell and others to put the teeth back into trade relations with
China.  I spoke to Rachel Lostumbo at the ICT in Washington this morning and
she pointed out that Tibet was clearly on people's minds during this debacle.
 The high visibility of the Tibetan issue would not have existed if it
weren't for last year's efforts and we should be proud of that much at least.
 Our Administration knows it blew it and feels guilty.  And rightly so.

The struggle continues.  The administration doesn't always speak for the
American people.  Let's keep a positive attitude and move on.

Give my best to all my friends.  I wish you good health and happiness.  Long
life to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Peace always.

Mike
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From: Sari Stiles ([e-mail])

In response to Clinton's announcement on MFN it looks pretty much like he
HAD to take a middle path...
        Just the same, that doesn't mean that people HAVE to buy PRC
products... it is just a little more difficult to find things that aren't.
        It also was looking like that if trade were cut off, so would
discussion.  At least doing limited trade means our government can keep
declaring a stand on Human Rights and have it be heard.
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2. Reactions to Clinton's Decision ...................................... 99
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Source: China News Digest
Compiled by: Charles Mok

[CND, 5/26/94] Clinton's decision was certain to spark another round of
fierce debate in Congress over the future of U.S. relations with China.
Clinton will take some political blows, to be sure, for flip-flopping on the
issue of linking human rights to trade. But Clinton's national security
adviser, Anthony Lake, suggests that Clinton's earlier statements, both in
the 1992 campaign as a candidate and last year as president, "allowed us to
achieve the progress that has been achieved this year" in getting Beijing's
attention on human rights.

Rep. Gerald Solomon, R-N.Y., immediately introduced a resolution of disap-
proval that, if passed by the House and Senate, would have the effect of
nullifying the president's decision to extend MFN. Solomon said, "We're not
going to get by letting China make a fool out of the United States every
year."

Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine broke with the president on
this issue and said he would introduce legislation to impose sanctions and
"to encourage the Chinese government to improve its practices on trade and
human rights."

House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo.: "I respect President
Clinton's decision. And I agree with the goals behind that decision. But I
don't agree with the means he has chosen to reach those goals. ... If we
don't offer sanctions to meet China's failures, we're making a false dis-
tinction between our economic wants and our human needs." Rep. L. Hamilton,
D-Ind., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said: " ... sound
foreign policy .... I regret, as I am sure the president does, that the
Chinese government's response to his executive order was so meager." AFL-CIO
President Lake Kirkland: " ... a disappointing setback ..." Rep. N. Pelosi,
D-Calif. said: " ... very bad news for the moderates and reformers in China
and a victory for the hardliners ... and we will proceed with legislation."

Business interests praised the decision. Jerry Junkins, chairman of the
Trade Task Force of the Business Roundtable, said it "showed political
courage and leadership." Jerry Jasinowski, president of the National Associ-
ation of Manufacturers, said Clinton made "the best decision for the Ameri-
can economy and jobs."

An example of the stakes involved was the announcement earlier in the day
that the Chinese government had signed a $5 billion contract with Boeing for
purchase of 50 commercial airliners.

"This decision clearly shows the president's commitment to the power of
expanding trade and exports as the best job-creating policies available,"
said Jerry Jasinowski, president of the National Association of Manufactur-
ers.

"The delinking of trade with human rights is really the critical factor
here," said Robert Hormats, a former State Department official in the Carter
and Reagan administration who is now a trade expert with the New York brok-
erage house Goldman Sachs.

"We don't need to go through an annual root canal agonizing over this every
year. It's very destructive to our relations with China," Hormats said.

Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, Ill., the world's largest maker of construction
equipment, which sees China as its fasting-growing market: "Denying MFN
would only have hurt major U.S. exporters like Caterpillar, while helping
European and Japanese competitors ... with no positive impact on the
development of human rights in China." Senate Minority Leader Bob
Dole, R-Kan.: " ... right thing ..." Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., chairman of the
Senate Armed Services Committee: "The president's decision allows the United
States to promote our democratic ideals without forfeiting our strategic
interests . relations with China must be resolving our mutual concerns over
North Korea's nuclear program."

AP News Analysis, under a subject "Clinton Reverses China Policy", said
Clinton's new China policy was one of those reversals he seemed destined to
make, given China's economic explosion and his own history of siding with
U.S. business interests on major trade issues. It was a collision course
between human rights and economic realities. And economics won.

"It may have taken a proven anti-communist Republican president like Richard
Nixon to first open the economic door to China two decades ago. And, by the
same token, it might have required a Democrat who had championed human
rights like Clinton to finally severe the links between trade and human
rights with that Asian superpower." AP analysis concluded. (Charles Mok)
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1. Shortchanging Rights in China
2. On My Mind
3. Excerpts from Senator Feinstein's speech of May 25. And Congresswoman Nancy
Pelosi's rebuttal to Clinton's MFN speech of May 26, 1994
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1. Shortchanging Rights in China
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Forwarded by: Lori Cayton <[e-mail]>
Source: New York Times, OpEd Page
Date: May 27, 1994

  Succumbing to enormous pressure from business interests,
President Clinton has walked away from his own sensible policy
of linking Beijing's trade privileges to modest human rights
progress.
  By abandoning its public threat of meaningful sanctions, the
Administration harms its foreign policy credibility and gravely
endangers those brave Chinese citizens who stood up to a brutal
dictatorship in the mistaken belief that Washington would defend
their cause.
  Mr. Clinton did not pretend that China had shown much progress
in many of the areas he specified last year.  But instead of
imposing the serious trade penalties he then threatened, he has
imposed useful but excessively narrow sanctions.  Targeting only
China's export of guns and ammunition, they will affect perhaps
$100 million of China's more than $30 billion a year in exports
to the U.S.
  Mr. Clinton argues that he will continue to pursue human rights
objectives, but mainly by non-economic means like broadcasting,
supporting human rights groups and promoting a corporate code
of conduct.  He thus abandons America's most powerful tool for
expanding freedom:  negotiating the terms of access to America's
indispensable market.
  Congress, which first raised using America's trade leverage to
support human rights, can mitigate the damage by broadening the
President's proposal to penalize other categories of goods
produced principally by companies associated with the Chinese
Army.  that approach, endorsed by Senator George Mitchell and
Representative Nancy Pelosi, would affect $900 million a year in
Chinese exports without damaging economic reform.
  Meanwhile, business leaders who have argued that trade and
investment are the best ways to advance human rights can show
their sincerity by taking up the President's proposal for a
voluntary code of corporate conduct.  Such a code should,
minimally, bar products made by prison labor, discourage political
indoctrination and surveillance in the workplace and encourage
U.s. executives to discuss human rights with Chinese authorities.
  A year ago, Mr. Clinton offered China an honorable way out of
the yearly wrangle.  Beijing merely had to live up to some of
its own past commitments to respect internationally recognized
human rights.
  But China, encouraged by kid-gloves treatment from past
Administrations, divided messages from the Clinton team and
vocal lobbying by American business, chose to ignore the offer.
Now Mr. Clinton has renewed China's trading status anyway.
Washington thus signals Beijing that it is more concerned
bout the profits of Boeing and AT&T than about China's
commitments or its citizens' rights.
  Economic intereests are a legitimate component of foreign
policy.  But with China enjoying a huge bilateral trade surplus
and Beijing's development model dependent on continued access
to American dollars, the U.S. had plenty of leverage to exert.
Many people argue that encouraging China's economic boom is the
most effective way to improve human rights.  But experience
elsewhere suggests that muscular diplomatic pressure helps.
  The U.S. also has security interests with China, like
cooperation on North Korean nuclear issues, regional stability
and proliferation.  But Washington has nothing to gain on any
of these fronts by confirming China's suspicions that the U.S.
is a paper tiger whose threats can safely be ignored.  It is
now up to Congress to correct that impression by enacting
broader sanctions.

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And from A.M. Rosenthal' ON MY MIND
Source: New York Times
Date:   May 27 1994

Bill Clinton's Teachings

  China's 75 million Christians are forbidden to worship how
and where they see fit.  Protestant and Catholic clerics are
often imprisoned and tortured.
  President Clinton is a religious man.  He talks of how much
his religion means to him.  He goes to church regularly.
  So it was natural that when, on May 28, 1993, he signed an
executive order giving the Chinese Communists one more year
to show progress on human rights or face tariff penalties, he
dealt with religion.  "Overall significant progress" in releasing
and accounting for religious prisoners was made a condition.
  Mr. Clinton believes in the decent treatment of political
prisoners too -- at least that they not be flogged daily or
left in their own excrement.  So the condition of significant
progress was made about them too.
  President Clinton is against the export of forced labor
products so essential to Beijing's profits.  The order demanded
that China abide by formal pacts to keep them out of the U.S.
  Mr. Clinton thinks quite poorly of wiping out a captive
nation.  Therefore the order demanded easing the destruction
of Tibet's religion and culture.
  No kowtowing to foreign pressures.  Before his election,
Mr. Clinton talked scornfully of President Bush coddling the
Chinese tyranny.
  Bill Clinton believes a President should provide leadership
in political morality and democratic idealism.  He thinks of
himself as a teacher for those who serve under him.   Now he
has decided that his own executive order does not mean what
the American public and Congress thought and wanted -- no real
human rights progress, no low-tariff privileges.
  Somehow he thinks Americans will believe night is day -- that
the Chinese Communists have imperfectly but sufficiently met the
conditions of human rights progress.  So he permanently
"delinked" trade and human rights -- a complete, smarmy
turnaround of every moral and political position he has taken
on Communist China.
  Mr. Clinton and those around him know that more political
dissidents, more priests and bishops are being arrested than
released, that crackdowns continue, harsher.  And they know that
China still exports slave labor products to the U.S. and to
the world, that Tibet's blood still flows.
  So the price of serving Mr. Clinton is to pretend that
retreat is achievement.  Government servants who have built
careers and honor now are abandoning the latter to keep the
former.
  The moral contagion extends to some members of Congress.
They saw the error of their ways after the China lobby began
its hugely funded campaign against relating tariffs to human
rights progress.
  Two years ago Senator Bill Bradley, the proudly intellectual
Democrat from New Jersey, voted for using the threat of
higher tariffs to soften the wardens of the Chinese gulag.
Now he says the idea is just a relic of the cold war.
  That would brand the following as cold warriors:  60 percent
of the American people, the majority of Congress, human
rights organizations worldwide, the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the U.S.
Council of Catholic Bishops, and of course some tens of millions
of Chinese in slave labor camps, torture cells and forced-
abortion clinics.
  Mr. Bradley is known for speaking on morals and values.
  Mr. Clinton's retreat is important far beyond the question
of whether economic pressures would help human rights in China
as they did in South Africa.  The President showed his willing-
ness to bow to business pressure at home on a major issue of
foreign and human affairs.  he showed himself surrendering
to a dictatorship, turning himself inside out.
  The Chinese gave him only contempt.  Their only promise was
that repression would continue.  The President did not blink --
he surrendered, to China and the lobby.
  Mr. Clinton already is criticized abroad for about-facing
on foreig affairs.  The surrender at Beijing will make it
impossible for fiend or foe to trust his foreign policy word --
even when he writes it into law himself.
  When friends cannot trust a Presidential word, alliances
erode.  when foes do not believe a President, the risk is war
by miscalculation, as in Korea and the Persian Gulf.
  The teaching of Mr. Clinton is:  Don't coddle tyrants, just
surrender.  For the President and his country, that is a sad
and dangerous message to send.
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3. Excerpts from Senator Feinstein's speech of May 25. And
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's rebuttal to Clinton's MFN speech of
May 26, 1994
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Forwarded by Bay Area Friends of Tibet, San Francisco May 27,
1994, <[e-mail]>

                                  TIBET

Let me speak for a moment in an area about which I have had much
discussion with the Chinese leadership.

China has made very little, if any, progress on the issue of
Tibet.

The Dalai Lama, a personal friend, has shown his willingness and
desire to return to Lhasa as the spiritual and religious head of
his government. Over and over again, for decades, he has eschewed
violence and pleaded for justice.

In 1979, Deng Xiaoping in a statement said that he would be
prepared to discuss issues with the Dalai Lama, "except that of
independence".

In other words, he again agreed to the statement of promise that
Deng Xiaoping held out in 1979 that has remained unanswered by
the Chinese to this day.

The Dalai Lama has given that same assurances to me, personally,
and I carried messages from him to the Chinese leadership in that
regard in 1991 and 1993.

Now it is  China's turn.

China should agree to talks on religious and cultural autonomy
for Tibet, not, because we want them to, but because it is in
China's domestic interest to give the Tibetans greater control
over their own society.  The key remains what incentives can be
provided to a post-succesion leadership to take these steps.
Around this, a strategy must be developed.

Such discussions would lend credibility to China's regular
declarations that their laws protect the rights of ethnic and
religious minorities. How can the world believe that China
protects the ethnic and religious minorities if they will not
even discuss those issues with the leader of one of China's major
minorities who was accorded the Nobel Prize for his dedicatiion
to justice through non-violence?

But instead of linking China's MFN status to behavior on Tibet -
and other human rights concerns - we should make human rights
discussions a part of the ongoing talks with China on trade and
other issues. New mechanisims must evolve.


excerpted from a longer speech released by Senator Feinstein's
office May 25, 1994.


          STATEMENT OF CONGRESSWOMAN NANCY PELOSI ON PRESIDENT
         CLINTON'S DECISION ON CHINA MOST FAVORED NATION STATUS

For immediate release May 26, 1994

Washington., D.C.  It is with great disappointment that I receive
President Clinton's decision to renew China's Most  Favored
Nation status without targeted sanctions.

There are two reasons for disappointment:

First, today's announcment is very bad news for the moderates and
reformers in China and a victory for the hardliners in the
regime.  This decision undermines the dissidents in China whose
hopes were raised by the President's Executive Order.

Second, last year, out of respect for the President's actions,
many of us in Congress discouraged support for complete
revocation and prevented efforts to enact the Executive Order as
law.  If, we had proceeded with legislation conditioning MFN to
China, the targeted sanctions called for in the legislation would
be in place.

The Congressional Working Group on China and the human rights and
religious groups with which we work know that China has not met
the conditions in the Executive Order.

My colleagues in the Working Group and I have worked on behalf of
prisoners of conscience in China and Tibet since the Tianamen
Square crackdown five years ago.  We will not abandon them.

We believe that sanctions on China trade are in order and we
will proceed with legislation.

One thing I am encouraged about is that despite the intense
lobbying and public relatiions campaign by the business
community, the American people are not fooled.  According to a
Time/CNN poll last week, 62% of Americans felt that encouraging
human rights in China was more important than trade and 60% said
the U.S. should require China to show more progress before
renewing MFN.

The fight for human rights and democratic principles is a long
and difficult struggle.  While disappointed, we are not deterred.
We will continue to fight.


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1.   STATEMENT BY ED BROADBENT ON THE CLINTON DECISION
     Trade and Rights Remain Linked
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          STATEMENT BY ED BROADBENT ON THE CLINTON DECISION
               Trade and Rights Remain Linked


MONTREAL, May 27, 1994 - - Ed Broadbent, President of the International
Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development released the following
statement earlier today.

     "The decision of the Clinton administration to extend China's
preferential trade status above all illustrates the difficulty in pursuing
the trade-rights linkage bilaterally.  It underlines the importance of a
multilateral approach.

     As the world consolidates into a giant trading block based on a world-
wide market economy, a multilateral approach on human rights has become
increasingly urgent.  It is not a matter of rights versus trade; it's a
matter of providing a set of rules within trading arrangements to ensure that
they do not violate human rights, just as we have rules to protect the
environment.  While human rights matters may continue to be discussed in the
context of bilateral trade, the most significant improvements are bound to be
those achieved by international consensus.  In this vein, the creation of the
World Trade Organization, to come into effect next year, provides democratic
governments from both North and South with an opportunity to establish rules
to ensure respect for a minimal set of rights.  Membership in the WTO should
be made conditional upon respect for freedom of speech, freedom of
association and the right to an independent union.

     The Government of Canada has indicated that it favours a multilateral
approach to this issue.  The Joint House of Commons-Senate Committee on
Foreign Affairs and International Trade is also studying the matter in the
context of Canada's review of its foreign policy.  I hope the result of this
process leads to a serious proposal for multilateral action."

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