DATE=6/27/98
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-234637
TITLE=SUMMIT / MISSILES / S-O
BYLINE=ROGER WILKISON
DATELINE=BEIJING
CONTENT=
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INTRO:  THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA HAVE AGREED THEY WILL NO 
LONGER POINT NUCLEAR MISSILES AT EACH OTHER.  V-O-A'S ROGER 
WILKISON REPORTS THE AGREEMENT CAME AT A SUMMIT IN BEIJING MARKED
LARGELY BY DISAGREEMENTS OVER SUCH ISSUES AS HUMAN RIGHTS, TRADE 
AND TIBET.

TEXT:  THE MISSILE DE-TARGETING ACCORD WAS HAILED BY CHINESE 
PRESIDENT JIANG ZEMIN -- WHO TOLD REPORTERS AT A POST-SUMMIT NEWS
CONFERENCE IT SHOWS CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE PARTNERS AND 
NOT ADVERSARIES.

PRESIDENT CLINTON, TOO, SAID THE ACCORD EXPANDS MUTUAL TRUST 
BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.

     /////CLINTON ACTUALITY/////

         WE BOTH FELT THAT, NUMBER ONE, IF WE DE-TARGETED, WE 
         WOULD COMPLETELY ELIMINATE THE PROSPECT EVER OF ANY KIND
         OF ACCIDENTAL LAUNCH AND, NUMBER TWO, WE WOULD TAKE ONE 
         MORE STEP IN SHOWING MUTUAL CONFIDENCE AND TRUST IN ONE 
         ANOTHER.

     /////END ACTUALITY/////

THE AGREEMENT IS MOSTLY SYMBOLIC, BECAUSE THE MISSILES CAN BE 
RE-TARGETED IN A MATTER OF MINUTES. (SIGNED)

NEB / WD / WD



27-Jun-98 2:59 AM EDT (0659 UTC)
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