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From Associated Press reports
BEIJING Communist Party
leader Jiang Zemin today told Chi
nese officials they must work harder
to counter Western "rumors" about
the crackdown on pro-democracy
protesters last month.
Premier Li Peng promised that
Chinese students abroad who partici
pated in protest rallies will be wel
comed back to China and not pun
ished. Li and Jiang were speaking at the
end of a six-day conference of 151
ambassadors and other diplomats who
apao to
From Associated Press reports
TOKYO At this week's Paris
summit of major industrialized na
tions, Prime Minister Sousuke Uno
will pledge nearly $40 billion in new
debt relief and environmental aid for
developing nations, government of
ficials said today.
Uno left for Paris today accompa
nied by his wife Chiyo, Finance
Minister Tatsuo Murayama and For
eign Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka.
During the three-day summit,
which opens Friday, Uno will an
nounce an increase of $35 billion in
Japan's "recycling of funds" program
for the developing world until 1991,
a Foreign Ministry official said.
The term "recycling of funds" re
fers to the overall plan by the Japa
nese government to use capital de
rived from its large trade surplus as
Soviet ethnic disputes continue
From Associated Press reports
MOSCOW Two people were
shot to death and 19 soldiers wounded
as ethnic violence flared anew in
Nagorno-Karabakh, the predomi
nantly Armenian enclave in the south
ern republic of Azerbaijan, news re
ports said today.
A 1 a.m.-5 a.m. curfew remained
in effect in the disputed region and a
two-month-old strike, kept most busi
nesses closed, according to the re
ports. Tensions between Armenians and
Azerbaijanis in Nagorno-Karabakh,
which neighboring Armenia seeks to
leaders
were called back to Beijing to dis
cuss Chinese foreign policy in the
wake of political turmoil at home.
Jiang was quoted on the national
evening news as telling the ambassa
dors and diplomats they must "in
crease their work in explaining the
truth to counter rumors of Western
reports."
Jiang said the diplomats must "help
foreign friends get rid of their misun
derstandings" of China's suppression
of the pro-democracy movement.
China says about 300 people, in
cluding many soldiers, were killed
aid developing
aid to help developing countries.
The $35 billion is in addition to
$30 billion Japan already has allo
cated to the developing world for
1987-89. It also includes an additional
$ 10 billion to be provided over a three
year period through a "parallel lend
ing facility" set up by the Japan Export-Import
Bank and the International
Monetary Fund, said the official, who
requested anonymity.
Projects to be funded remain to be
decided, but aid is expected to go to
African nations, Brazil, Mexico, the
Philippines and Venezuela, said an
other ministry official, also speaking
on condition of anonymity. An addi
tional $2.25 billion will be set aside
for projects tackling environmental
problems, the Foreign Ministry offi
cial said.
Another $600 million will be pro
annex, have run high since February
1988. Ninety people have died in the
region in ethnic disputes over the last
year.
Various reports said two Azer
baijanis were killed and a third seri
ously hurt Tuesday near the village
of Kirkidzhan, but the circumstances
remained unclear.
The official news agency Tass and
the chief editor of Azerbaijan's offi
cial news agency Azerinform said the
victims were shot in an ambush. The
Azerinform editor said by telephone
from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku
that "extremist Armenians opened fire
couonteir
when the military occupied Beijing
on June 3-4 to end seven weeks of
student-led demonstrations. Chinese
sources and Western intelligence
reports have put the death toll as high
as 3,000.
The United States and many West
em nations have suspended high-level
contacts with China and frozen talks
on new financial assistance to China
to show their outrage over the use of
force.
Many Western nations are allow
ing Chinese students to extend their
stays because of fears they face per
vided in grants to the poorest of the
developing nations, mostly in Africa,
he said.
The money comes from the Japan
Overseas Cooperation Fund, a cen
tral government organization; the
Export-Import Bank, which supplies
money from the government and pri
vate sector, and international institu
tions such as the International Mone
tary Fund and World Bank, whose
funding comes from private firms and
governments.
Japan has not said how much
money will come from private firms
and how much from the government.
Before attending the annual sum
mit, Uno is scheduled to meet with
other summit participants from Brit
ain, Canada, France, Italy, West Ger
many and the United States, accord
ing to the Foreign Ministry.
with hunting rifles."
Tass said groups fired shots at each
other Monday, and that on Tuesday
Armenians blocked roads with iron
plates and telegraph poles in Stepanak
ert, the administrative center of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Also in the region,
Azerbaijanis made barricades out of
cars in the village of Khodzhali, the
agency said.
A crowd on Tuesday pelted sol
diers clearing roads around Stepanak
ert with stones and fired at them with
hunting rifles, wounding 19 troops,
the news agency reported.
"It's turned into a Lebanon," the
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secution if they return to China. More
than 2,000 people have been reported
arrested for joining protests.
"Because they were far from the
motherland and influenced by the
Western media, they didn't under
stand the true situation and partici
pated in protests and said some ex
tremist words," Li was quoted as
saying about students living abroad.
He said the party is making a con
scientious effort to tackle problems
such as corruption and unfair job
assignments, key issues during the
demonstrations.
nations
He will also meet with two fe
male heads of government Philip
pine President Corazon Aquino and
Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir
Bhutto. A Foreign Ministry spokes
man this week denied that Uno's
meetings with them were scheduled
to demonstrate he still has credibility
with women.
Uno has been besieged politically
at home in the wake of a sex-for-money
scandal including allegations
he maintained sexual relations with
geishas for more than a decade.
On Thursday, Uno will attend
events celebrating the 200th anniver
sary of the French Revolution in Paris
and grand opening of the new Bas
tille Opera House.
Uno is scheduled to return to Ja
pan on Tuesday.
Azerinform editor said, referring to
the persistent fighting in the Middle
Eastern country.
Declining to be identified, he
added, "Armenians are waging an
organized battle to turn Nagorno
Karabakh into an arena of confronta
tion to upset the balance with the
Azerbaijani population." State radio
and TV broadcast appeals by authori
ties for calm, the editor said.
Nagorno-Karabakh, a region of
162,000 people, has been part of
Azerbaijan since 1923 but Armeni
ans claim that Azerbaijanis discrimi
nate against them. .
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Jiang said the turmoil showed
China's leaders they must uphold
socialist principles and combat the
trend toward "bourgeois liberaliza
tion," or attraction to Western cul
ture. He said China must educate the
entire nation, particularly its young
people, in patriotism, and raise the
level of national pride.
China's concern about outside
reaction to events at home was ex
pressed when the Communist Party's
official newspaper urged the rival
government on Taiwan not to let the
crackdown on dissent stand in the
way of improving ties.
The appeal, in a front-page com
mentary in today's People's Daily,
came after Chinese police ordered
two Taiwanese reporters out of the
country.
Hsu Lu, who in September 1987
was the first Taiwanese journalist to
come to mainland China, said before
leaving for Hong Kong that it was
"very ironic" the government that had
so warmly welcomed her was now
expelling her. .
China on Tuesday deported Tai
wanese reporter Huang Teh-pei after
holding him for eight days, and the
People's Daily said China acted
leniently toward him for the sake of
relations with Taiwan. Huang, a re
porter for the Independence Morning
Post, was accused of violating mar
tial law regulations that ban most
reporting activities. He also was ac
cused of contacting a student dissi
dent wanted by police.
Hsu, who works for the Independ
ence Evening News, was accused of
violating martial law, reporting on a
tourist visa and trying to help a fugi
tive escape. She admitted receiving a
call from Wang Dan, a leader of the
pro-democracy movement.
Hsu said she told her interroga
tors, "I got Wang Dan's phone call
and agreed to meet with him, but I
never even saw him."
Her colleague, Huang, kept the
appointment on July 2 to discuss op
tions for Wang's escape, but the two
split up when they realized their car
was being followed. Security agents
chased the car carrying Wang.
Huang said in Hong Kong on
Tuesday that authorities told him
Wang had been arrested, but there
has been no announcement
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