CHINA: U.S. TEAM ARRIVES IN BEIJING TO DISCUSS REPARATIONS FOR NATO'S ACCIDENTAL BOMBING OF THE CHINESE EMBASSY IN BELGRADE
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CHINA: U.S. TEAM ARRIVES IN BEIJING TO DISCUSS REPARATIONS FOR NATO'S ACCIDENTAL BOMBING OF THE CHINESE EMBASSY IN BELGRADE
- Title: CHINA: U.S. TEAM ARRIVES IN BEIJING TO DISCUSS REPARATIONS FOR NATO'S ACCIDENTAL BOMBING OF THE CHINESE EMBASSY IN BELGRADE
- Date: 15th July 1999
- Summary: BEIJING, CHINA (JULY 15, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV UNITED STATES STATE DEPARTMENT LEGAL ADVISOR DAVID ANDREWS WALKING TO U.S. EMBASSY 0.07 2. SLV ANDREWS WALKING THROUGH EMBASSY DISTRICT 0.11 3. MV CHINESE SECURITY 0.13 4. SLV ANDREWS WALKING PASSED SECURITY INTO U.S EMBASSY 0.20 5. SLV UNITED STATES FLAG 0.25 6. LV EXTERIOR OF CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY 0.31 7. MV PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA FLAG 0.36 8. TRACK U.S. DELEGATION DRIVING INTO FOREIGN MINISTRY 1.00 (FILE - MAY 8, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 9. WS STUDENTS MARCHING IN PROTEST AGAINST EMBASSY BOMBING 1.08 10. SLV BANNERS 1.13 11. CU/SCU STUDENTS SHOUTING SLOGANS (2 SHOTS) 1.22 12. SV'S STUDENTS THROWING ROCKS AT U.S. EMBASSY (2 SHOTS) 1.35 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 30th July 1999 13:00
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- Location: BEIJING, CHINA
- Country: China
- Reuters ID: LVA18N275LT7FIELHJAJ3LDJFHAI
- Story Text: A United States team has arrived in Beijing to discuss
reparations for NATO's bombing of the Chinese embassy in
Belgrade.
A U.S.delegation on Thursday (July 15) began its first
day of talks on reparations for NATO's deadly bombing of the
Chinese embassy in Belgrade in May.
Heading the interagency delegation is State Department
legal advisor David Andrews, accompanied by Susan Shirk,
deputy assistant secretary of state for the East Asia-Pacific
region.
The delegation plans to follow up on a Clinton
administration offer of humanitarian payments to bombing
victims and discuss the issue of property damage caused by the
attack, the State Department said last week.
China has demanded compensation for the gutted embassy
and for the families of three journalists killed and for the
more than 20 people wounded when NATO bombs hit the Chinese
embassy in Yugoslavia on May 7.
The United States sent Undersecretary of State Thomas
Pickering to Beijing last month to apologize for the bombing
and explain the series of intelligence errors Washington said
led to the attack.
China flatly rejected his explanation as "unconvincing"
and repeated its demand for compensation and punishment for
those responsible.
Premier Zhu Rongji told visiting Japanese Prime Minister
Keizo Obuchi last week that China was not ready to resume
talks with the United States over its entry into the World
Trade Organization, which Beijing suspended after the bombing.
China also froze military exchanges and a human rights
dialogue with the United States over the attack, which sparked
violent anti-U.S.protests in Beijing and other Chinese
cities.
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