Extracts. Beijing Holds Exhibition Marking CPC's Founding An exhibition marking the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) opened in Beijing Saturday. On display are 745 photos, 19 charts and 206 other items. These exhibits, many of which have never been shown before, demonstrate the development of the CPC in Beijing and the achievements the Chinese capital has made under the leadership of the Party since the founding of New China. Attending the opening ceremony of the exhibition were Jia Qinglin, secretary of the CPC's Beijing Municipal Committee, and many other senior Party members. **** Chinese-Built Dredgers Delivered to Myanmar for Services Three dredgers, purchased by the Myanmar water transport authorities from a Chinese Yunnan company, were formally handed over Saturday to the Myanmar side for services. The three dredgers, built by Tianjin Xinhe Shipyard, were exported by the Yunnan Machinery and Equipment Import and Export Corporation (YMEC) of China to the Directorate of Water Resources and Improvement of River System of Myanmar. The delivery ceremony, held at Yangon's Nanthida Jetty, was attended by First Secretary of the Myanmar State Peace and Development Council Lieutenant-General Khin Nyunt, Myanmar Minister of Transport Major-General Hla Myint Swe and Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Li Jinjun. The three dredgers, which worth 8.9 million U.S. dollars, are the first batch of dredgers of its kind imported by Myanmar from China. The commission of the three dredgers into services are expected to greatly speed up Myanmar's dredging work, thus promoting the development of the country's water transport. **** Mexico's Debrez to Return to China in July to Discuss WTO Deal Mexico's Secretary for the Economy Luis Debrez will return to China in July for trade talks in an effort to hammer out details of a WTO deal, a Mexican official said Friday. Speaking after the close of the APEC trade ministers' meeting in Shanghai, Luis de la Calle Pardo, Mexico's undersecretary for international trade negotiation, said negotiations were nearing completion. Sticking points between China and Mexico, the only World Trade Organisation (WTO) member not to have signed a bilateral trade deal with China, centred on what "disciplines" should be used in dealing with unfair trade practices de la Calle said. "We believe a deal is doable with China, and we have offered China flexibility on our side. If there is flexibility on both sides, we can finish it," he said. However, he said that although Mexico would prefer to conclude a bilateral agreement with China as soon as possible and before China joined the WTO, Mexico would be willing to negotiate after China's accession to the WTO. Shi Guangsheng, China's minister responsible for foreign trade and economic cooperation, announced during the APEC trade ministers meeting earlier this week that bilateral negotiations with Mexico would start in two weeks' time. De la Calle, who held talks with China's chief trade negotiator Long Yongtu during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum meeting, said: "We agreed we would meet in two weeks, and further agreed that Minister Debrez will come back to China at the end of July. It will be a working visit ... to see whether we can hammer out the details of a potential agreement." He said Mexico had significant interest in exporting agricultural products, agro-industrial products, fisheries, certain raw materials including cement, fibres and chemical products and appliances and glass products. More generally, he said that one of the reasons for President Vicente Fox's tour of Asian countries, including China, this month, was to awaken the interest of Mexican business in the Asian market. Currently more than 80 percent of Mexico's exports go to the United States. Fox is due to arrive in Shanghai late Friday for meetings with city officials after visiting Beijing and Xi'an. **** China Slams Poultry Ban by ROK, Japan China's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Saturday voiced strong opposition to the ban imposed by the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan on the import of poultry and poultry products from China. "The ban is unreasonable and inconsistent with international rules," the ministry's spokeswoman Gao Yan said. She said the ban was imposed without scientific or factual proof, and was "frivolous and irresponsible." On June 4, the ROK Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, without coming up with any test proof, announced that it has found traces of H5N1, a bird flu, in duck meat that had been imported from the Shanghai-based Daying Meat and Poultry Packing Company. The ROK ministry then imposed a ban on importing poultry and poultry products from China on the same day. Relevant agencies of the Japanese government, based merely on information provided by the ROK, announced that they had also place a ban on importing poultry and poultry products from China, starting June 8. Gao said the Chinese government has always paid great attention to the prevention and control of bird flu, and often surveys and monitors the outbreak of epidemic diseases affecting poultry. She said China has strictly examined and quarantined all poultry and poultry products, with the number of monitored samples every year surpassing one million. The monitoring results indicate that no H5N1 poultry flu has been found in China so far. Investigation and monitoring of the Shanghai company and the origin of the poultry processed by the firm have also found no bird flu, Gao affirmed. Gao said that the Chinese side demands that the ROK and Japanese governments act in accordance with the principles of science and fairness, reconsider the steps they have taken and resolve the problem as soon as possible. **** US Team in Hainan to Prepare for Dismantling of Spy Plane A team of four US technicians was on the southern Chinese island of Hainan Friday to make preparations for the dismantling of the US spy plane, the US embassy said. The team, accompanied by US diplomats, was due to hold talks with Chinese military officials to work out the logistics for dismantling and airlifting the 80-million-dollar EP-3 Aries aircraft out of Lingshui airbase on Hainan. A US embassy spokesman said there was no firm timetable for the removal of the aircraft. "It is complicated and will take some time," he said. Pentagon spokesman Craig Quigley said in Washington the plane would be broken into four parts -- the two wings, the fuselage and tail -- and loaded onto probably two Antonov-124s. He said the Ukrainian-built aircraft, the world's biggest cargo plane, would not be filled to capacity so as to ease the strain on the runway at Lingshui which has been constructed for smaller fighter aircraft. Quigley experts would work out how many flights the Antonovs would need to transport the EP-3 back to the United States where it will be reassembled and put back in service. He said a full crew would begin arriving in Hainan in the middle of next week with heavy machinery such as cranes to begin taking the plane apart, and he estimated the whole process could take around a month. Quigley said the Chinese side would not be involved in the process of taking the aircraft to pieces. The United States wanted to repair the plane -- which was packed with high-tech electronic surveillance equipment -- and fly it home. However China said it would be an insult to the Chinese people to allow the aircraft to leave under its own power after it had been spying on the country. The April 1 collision led the Chinese jet to crash into the sea, causing the death of its pilot and presenting the administration of US President George W. Bush with its first foreign-policy crisis. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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