Chinese Foreign Policy: A Chronology April - June 2009 - Defence ...

23 May 2009 Beijing - Guoji Zaixian (China Radio International) website accused the US ofsupporting separatist elements in China. While acknowledging that "the US has imposedsanctions on ETIM and an ETIM leader” , it alleged that the National Endowment forDemocracy in the US Congress was financially supporting the 'World Uighur YouthCongress'. It felt that in contrast to claims of ‘change’ in US foreign policy – “The US coreinterests and values have had no fundamental change".24 May 2009 Beijing - Guoji Xianqu Daobao (International Herald Leader) reported Ye Hailinof the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, as saying that sanctions on Abdul Haq would“create a good atmosphere for China and the US to cooperate against terrorism”.24 May 2009 Beijing - President of Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma arrived in China for his7-day state visit to China. Koroma will hold talks with President Hu Jintao, and will meetPremier Wen Jiabao and Jia Qinglin, chairman of the National Committee of the CPPCC.24 May 2009 A delegation of the CPPCC, led by Zhang Meiying, vice-chairperson of theNational Committee of CPPCC, has left on a three nation tour to Kyrgyzstan, Montenegroand Turkmenistan.24 May 2009 Hanoi –Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi is attending the 9th Asia-Europe Meeting(ASEM) Foreign Ministers' Meeting. The meeting, slated for May 25 to 26, is expected todraw foreign ministers and delegations from 45 ASEM members. Participants will discussmeasures on forging closer Asia-Europe partnership to address the international economicand financial crisis as well as other global challenges.24 May 2009 Beijing – Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu expressed condolences forthe death of Roh Moo-hyun, former president of the ROK. "The Chinese government andpeople will remember the active efforts and great contributions he had made to promote theoverall development of the China-ROK relations."25 May 2009 Beijing – The Foreign Ministry has issued a statement resolutely opposing thenuclear test by the DPRK. "The DPRK ignored universal opposition of the internationalcommunity and once more conducted the nuclear test. The Chinese government is resolutelyopposed to it."Hong Kong news agency Zhongguo Tongxun She has reported Chinese Foreign MinisterYang Jiechi’s response to the DPRK nuclear test – that one must respond calmly and realizeKorean non-nuclearization through the Six-Party Talks. “China has stressed that, eventhough the DPRK has conducted a nuclear test again, it is still important to realize Korea'snon-nuclearization through the Six-Party Talks.”CCTV-1 on its "News 30 Minutes" carried a 1.5-minute report on DPRK's nuclear test,featuring its correspondent in the DPRK quoting from the DPRK’s press communiqué. Itannounces that the DPRK launched its nuclear test at 1200 local time “to enhance theDPRK's self-defensive nuclear deterrent”.South Korean news agency Yonhap claimed that North Korea gave advance notice of itssecond nuclear test to China:“Whether Pyongyang informed its closest ally of the test plan appears to besignificant, as Chinese officials were reportedly upset over the North's short noticebefore its first atomic weapons test in 2006.”Hanoi – A Japanese Foreign Ministry official had revealed that Japanese Foreign MinisterHirofumi Nakasone sought support from Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi over a UNSecurity Council resolution in response to the DPRK’s second nuclear test. However Yang82