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(B) CATHOLIC PRIESTS AND PROTESTANT PREACHERS WHO HAD RECENTLY BEEN ARRESTED, ESPECIALLY IN NORTHERN CHINA, AND WHO MIGHT WELL BE RELEASED ON HUMANITARIAN GROUNDS ASSUMING THAT THEY WERE NOT CRIMINALS IN THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCEPTED SENSE.
(C) PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE EVENTS IN TIANANMEN. THERE SHOULD BE A FINAL ACCOUNTING. IT WAS NOT HELPFUL TO CHINESE CREDIBILITY TO SAY THE TRIALS WERE OVER AND THEN PUT MORE PEOPLE ON TRIAL. KIMMITT ASSOCIATED HIMSELF WITH THE CALLS BY FOREIGN MINISTERS EVANS AND DUMAS FOR AN AMNESTY AND THE RELEASE OF THOSE STILL DETAINED. KIMMITT SAID THE WEST STILL HAD STRONG RESERVATIONS ABOUT IMPRISONMENT OF PEOPLE FOR EXPRESSING HETERODOX POLITICAL VIEWS.
4. AT A SOCIAL FUNCTION KIMMITT ASKED WHETHER THERE MIGHT NOT BE SOME POSSIBILITY OF COMMUTING SOME SENTENCES. HE GOT A HINT THAT THIS MIGHT HAPPEN BUT NO COMMITMENT. (KEYSER SAID THAT AMBASSADOR LILLEY HAD SEPARATELY CALLED ON THE MINISTER OF PUBLIC SECURITY ON 7 MAY. TAO SIJU HAD 'AGREED ' THAT WANG DAN MIGHT BE A CANDIDATE FOR EARLY RELEASE. TAO SAID THERE WERE ONLY 21 YET TO BE TRIED IN THE PEKING MUNICIPALITY).
PEOPLE
5. KIMMITT ALSO RAISED THE JAMMING OF VOA BUT GOT NO RESPONSE.
NON-PROLIFERATION.
6. KEYSER SAID THIS WOULD BE DEALT WITH MORE BY BARTHOLOMEW. KIMMITT HAD WELCOMED CHINESE AND ALGERIAN CLARIFICATION OF THE SCOPE OF THEIR NUCLEAR COOPERATION AND ESPECIALLY THE COMMITMENT TO FOLLOW IAEA SAFEGUARDS. THE US WAS ALSO WORRIED ABOUT POSSIBLE M9 AND M11 SALES TO SYRIA, IRAN AND PAKISTAN. LIU SAID THAT THE CHINESE HAD NOT SOLD M9 MISSILES TO SYRIA. THE CHINESE WERE NOT SELLING ANY MISSILES TO LIBYA. THE MISSILES SOLD TO PAKISTAN WERE PURELY FOR DEFENCE AND FELL WITHIN MTCR GUIDELINES. (LIU NONETHELESS STUCK TO THE STANDARD LINE THAT THE MTCR LACKED ANY BINDING FORCE).
7. LIU ALSO SPOKE IN STANDARD TERMS ON NORTH KOREA. THE CHINESE HAD RAISED US AND SOVIET (AND OTHER COUNTRIES') CONCERNS OVER NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMME, BUT HAD BEEN TOLD NOT TO WORRY. THE CHINESE DID NOT COOPERATE WITH NORTH KOREA ON NUCLEAR MATTERS. THEY HAD TOLD THE NORTH KOREANS THAT THERE WAS NO PRECEDENT FOR A WITHDRAWAL FROM THE NPT.
TRADE.
8. KIMMITT TOUCHED ON THIS WITH LIU BUT THE MAIN DISCUSSION WAS
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