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DURING WHICH KEYSER SAID THAT KANTER TOOK UP THE ISSUE OF EXIT VISAS FOR DISSIDENTS. THIS WAS FOLLOWING UP QIAN QICHEN'S PROMISE TO BAKER LAST NOVEMBER THAT THE CHINESE WOULD GRANT PASSPORTS AND

EXIT PERMITS TO CHINESE AGAINST WHOM THERE WAS NO OUTSTANDING LEGAL PROCEEDINGS. KANTER WAS REASSURED THAT THAT UNDERSTANDING REMAINED VALID. HE WAS TOLD SPECIFICALLY THAT HAN DONGFANG AND LIU QING

WOULD SHORTLY BE GIVEN PERMISSION TO LEAVE. HE WAS ALSO TOLD THAT

SEVERAL OTHER PEOPLE, THE MOST PROMINENT CF WHOM WAS WANG RUOWANG, WOULD ALSO SHORTLY BE GIVEN PERMISSION TO LEAVE. KANTER RAISED THE

QUESTION OF THE RELEASE OF PEOPLE HELD IN CONNECTION WITH 4 JUNE BUT WAS AGAIN TOLD THAT AS THE CHINESE HAD NO LAW ALLOWING IT, THERE WAS NO QUESTION OF A GENERAL AMNESTY. LU JIAN, THE VICE MINISTER OF JUSTICE, HANDED OVER PHOTOGRAFHS OF PROMINENT PRISONERS WHICH PURPORTED TO SHOW THAT THEY WERE IN GOOD HEALTH AND BEING

TREATED WELL. KEYSER ASSUMES THAT THE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE THE SAME AS

THOSE GIVEN TO JOHN KAMM THE HONG KONG BASED HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST. (TWO OF THESE PHOTOGRAPHS HAVE APPEARED IN THE SOUTH CHINA MORNING

POST.) KANTER ALSO ASKED FOR A FOLLOW UP ON THE LIST OF 23

PRISONERS HE HAD HANDED OVER TO LIU HUAQIU IN WASHINGTON IN MARCH

THIS YEAR. THE MINISTER OF PUBLIC SECURITY, TAO SIJU, CONGRATULATED KANTER ON PRODUCING A LIST OF WHICH THE CHINESE COULD

IDENTIFY 22 OF THE 23 NAMES. TAO SAID THAT THE MAJORITY OF THOSE

ON THE LIST WERE IN PRISON BUT HE DID NOT IDENTIFY WHO FITTED INTO

THIS CATEGORY. ALL KANTER'S INTERLOCUTORS SAID THAT PRISONERS'

CONDITIONS WERE GOOD.

4. ALTHOUGH THERE WAS SOME REFERENCE TO THE RIOTING IN LOS

ANGELES, THE CHINESE DID NOT MAKE AS MUCH OF THIS AS MIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED. KANTER STARTED HIS PRESENTATION BY SAYING THAT THE

US RECOGNISED IT WAS NOT PERFECT BUT AT LEAST IT SET HIGH STANDARDS

AND WAS PREPARED TO DISCUSS ITS RECORD WITH OTHER PEOPLE.

PROLIFERATION

5.

KANTER'S VISIT HAD BEEN PRECEDED BY THAT OF CLARKE WHO HAD GONE OVER THE GROUND IN GREAT DETAIL WITH THE CHINESE EXPERTS. KANTER

THEREFORE STUCK TO GENERALITIES. HE SAID THAT HE WAS DELIGHTED

THAT CHINA WAS TO ABIDE BY MTCR GUIDELINES AND SUGGESTED THAT NOW

WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO DISCUSS NUCLEAR NON PROLIFERATION WITHIN CHINA. HE DID NOT RECEIVE ANY RESPONSE. THERE WAS NO SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO MISSILE SALES TO SYRIA OR PAKISTAN DURING CLARKE' VISIT AND ONLY A VERY BRIEF REFERENCE BY KANTER. FOR THEIR PART, THE CHINESE RAISED THEIR COMPLAINTS ABOUT US MILITARY COOPERATION

WITH TAIWAN WHICH THEY DESCRIBED AS PROLIFERATION OF A DIFFERENT

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