Subject: CND-EP Weekly Posting, February 26, 1991

From: CND-EP <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 91 00:57:10 -0500

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=====================  Europe / Pacific Section (CND-EP)  =====================
				February 26, 1991
 
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1. Australia Lifts Sanctions against China..............................40

2. IFCSS Issues Statement on Chinese Embassy's Attempt of Sabotage......50

3. Directory of Pro-democracy Organization Published....................10
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1. Australia Lifts Sanctions against China
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>From: CND Correspondent [email-masked] Tue Feb 26 12:58:02 1991

	CANBERRA, Australia (UPI) -- Australia will immediately normalize
relations with China and lift sanctions imposed after the 1989 Beijing
massacre, Foreign Minister Gareth Evans said Tuesday.
	In a statement Evans said that the decision followed the second
review of restrictions, which were first modified in 1990.
	The Australian government had maintained that relations with China
would not be restored until China had made progress in human relations.
	In a radio interview last Wednesday Evans said there had been a
marginal improvement in human rights in China.
	In Tuesday's statement Evans noted that freedom of speech and
association continued to be severely repressed.
	``There is no sign of a return to the very open climate of political
and economic discussion which preceeded June 1989,'' Evans said in the
statement.
	``The restrictions to be lifted apply to considering new proposals to
technical cooperation and agricultural research activities with China,
considering new applications for concessional financing under Australia's
Development Import Finance Facility, and political party visits including
exchanges of parliamentary delegations,'' Evans said.
	``The Australian government sees diminishing value in constraining
our relations with China to a markedly lower level than those of like-
minded countries, not to mention our regional partners,'' Evans said.
	``Australia recognizes China's important place in the Asia-Pacific
region, and we remain committed to a long-term cooperative relationship
with that country both bilaterally and as partners in the region.
	``Our hope remains, that the Chinese leaders will allow the processes
of reform and modernization to continue, and we will take every available
opportunity to press that point,'' Evans said.
	The Australian government downgraded its relationships with Beijing a
week after Chinese troops fired on the demonstrators in Tiananmen
Square.
	These included the suspension of high level visits and defense
contacts, together with restrictions on some categories of new aid
projects.
	In January 1990 the blanket ban on ministerial visits was eased as
part of an international climate that has seen a number of countries,
including Japan and the United States, relaxing restrictions imposed on
China.
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2. IFCSS Issues Statement on Chinese Embassy's Attempt of Sabotage
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Provided by CND-US Editor Zuofeng Li <[email-masked]>
>From: IFCSS HQ <[email-masked]> Date: Friday, Feb. 22, 1991

The IFCSS issued a Statement in response to the statement issued by CSSS-UVA
on February 18 (for the statement from CSSS-UVa, see the Feb. 19, 1991, issue
of CND-EP).  Following is a translation of this statement. The original IFCSS
statement (in Chinese) was sent to the Chinese Embassy by registered mail.
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On the 18th of February, the Chinese Students and Scholars Society at
University of Virginia (CSSS-UVA) issued a statement which speaks with the
force of justice.  The statement strongly protested the act of the Chinese
Embassy to refuse to provide activity funds to CSSS-UVA simply because
CSSS-UVA is an active member of IFCSS; clearly indicated that the activity
funds for students studying abroad are from their parents, brothers and
sisters, the Chinese Embassy has no rights to attach any conditions;
profoundly announced that CSSS-UVA will not withdraw from IFCSS not matter
what the pressure is, members of CSSS-UVA will not trade freedom with money;
and revealed some non-diplomatic activities of Mr. Hu Zhiben, Second
Secretary of Chinese Embassy, who in various occasions had been fabricating
rumours about IFCSS in order to split the Chinese students. In the statement,
CSSS-UVA proclaimed that it will continue the efforts to contend for and
protect the rights for its members that they are entitled to, and warned the
Chinese Embassy and some of its officers about their acts to sabotage IFCSS
and to split the Chinese students. The Independent Federation of Chinese
Students and Scholars (IFCSS) hereby proclaim that it fully supports the
position of CSSS-UVA, and that

(1) IFCSS was formed democratically and is legally registered in the United
States.  Any one who acts to slander or damage IFCSS is challenging the law of
this country, and must be responsible for all the legal consequences;

(2) The activity funds belong to the Chinese students. Any one who acts to
splitting the Chinese students by manipulating the funds is insulting the
hardworking of the Chinese people in China and interfering the normal lives of
the Chinese students here, and must be responsible for all the legal
consequences;

(3) Mr. Hu Zhiben had been fabricating rumours about IFCSS in different
occasions.  Those rumours include that the State Department had sent a memo to
the Chinese Embassy to notify that IFCSS is a terrorist organization, that the
Chinese Students Association of George Washington University verbally claimed
to withdraw from IFCSS, thus there is a GW model, etc.  Mr. Hu Zhiben must be
responsible for all the legal consequences of his own acclivities;

(4) Mr. Hu Zhiben and some other Chinese Embassy officers have been very
active in different campuses recently. They have used the students activity
funds as well as other means as leverages to coerce the Chinese students
organizations to withdraw from IFCSS. The Chinese Embassy must give
explanations to these, and must be responsible for all the legal consequences.
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3. Directory of Pro-democracy Organization Published
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Provided by CND-US Editor Zuofeng Li <[email-masked]>

A directory of Pro-Democracy Organizations Published --  A book, titled
'Concerned Organizations on Chinese Democratice Movement '89.  (in Chinese)'
has been published by the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic
Democratic Movement in China. The book contains a list of 228 Chinese
pro-democracy organizations in the world as well as reports of major
activities carried out by these organizations. For more information, write
Hong Kong Alliance Information Center, 101 -107A Portland Street, 3/floor
Kowloon, Hong Kong;   E_mail: [email-masked] ([email-masked])
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