Extracts. CPC Is Historically Proved Great, Glorious and Correct: Article The 80-year old Communist Party of China (CPC) has been proved to be a great, glorious and correct party; the leadership of the CPC has been an inevitable option both for the Chinese people and for the development of China's history; the New China would be nonexistent without the CPC, and it is impossible to modernize China without the leadership of the CPC. These accomplishments were emphasized in a signed article, titled "Great History and Brilliant Achievements", published by Xinhua News Agency Monday. The country is about to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the founding of the CPC, which falls on July 1. The article recalled the achievements of the CPC over the past 80 years, in its efforts to integrate Marxism-Leninism with China' s realities; establish the New China after decades of armed struggles against warlords, the Kuomintang regime and the Japanese invaders; set up a socialist system by dealing with all difficulties; and launching the ongoing reform and opening drive. Over the past 80 years, the three generations of central leadership with Mao Zedong, De Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin at the core, respectively, have made enormous contributions to the development of the CPC, the victory of the socialist revolution, and the development of the socialist cause, it said. In its history, the Party has made two major theoretical leaps, with the first made by the first generation leadership to find China's own road of revolution and create Mao Zedong Thought, and the second made by the second generation leadership to find China' s own road of construction and create Deng Xiaoping Theory, according to the article. The third generation leadership has been upholding the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory and continuing to enrich and creatively develop the theory by proposing that the Party should always earnestly represent the development requirements of China's advanced social productive forces, the progressive course of China 's advanced culture, and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people, it noted. **** Analysis: Russia-US Dialog Fails to Iron Out Differences Russia <http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/data/russia.html> n President Vladimir Putin and US President George W. Bush held their first meeting in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia on June 16. Judged from the situation of their meeting, although Putin and Bush both indicated that their dialog was "positive", "laying a sound foundation" for both sides to establish and develop a pragmatic relationship, no major breakthrough was made in Russian-US relations, and it remains hard for both countries to bridge over their differences in questions relating to global security and in such issues as the Balkan situation. The first meeting between the Russian and US presidents extended about 45 minutes longer than originally planned. After the meeting was over, Putin and Bush both attended a press conference. Bush indicated that Russia is a world big country, constructive cooperation between the United States <http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/data/usa.html> and Russia would bring more security and prosperity to the world. Bush said his first meeting with Putin was an important step toward the establishment of constructive US-Russian relations, both countries agreed that they would conduct extensive dialogs on a series of questions about carrying out constructive cooperation between the two countries. Putin has accepted invitation to visit the United States set for this fall, Bush has also accepted the invitation Putin extended to him to visit Russia. Bush indicated that it was necessary to establish a brand-new US-Russian relationship, he believed that after the meeting, the two countries "can become reliable partners and friends, the two presidents have discussed and agreed to prevent the proliferation of large-scale antipersonnel weapons and jointly attack terrorism". He said that during the Cold War period, peace was built on the basis of possible elimination of the opposite side, but "now we have become friends, we must enter into cooperation". He disclosed both sides had decided through consultation to continue developing cooperation to jointly solve such regional issues as the Balkan, Nagorno-Karabahaskaja AO and Afghanistan <http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/data/afghanistan.html> . Bush said the United States and Russia had agreed to conduct conscientious and regular consultations concerning the nature of the two countries' security relations. For this end, he has instructed US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to continue consultation with the Russian side on establishing a new security framework for the two countries. The two leaders also discussed questions concerning economic cooperation between the two countries, they unanimously agreed that the current bilateral economic ties did not match the economic strength of the two countries. The two sides also studied questions relating to cooperation in the aspects of energy, space technology and the construction of Caspian Sea oil pipelining. Bush indicated that the United States was willing to increase investment in Russia, in order to boost Russia's economic development. To achieve this, he will send Finance Secretary Paul 0'neill and Commerce Secretary Evans to go to Russia for further discussions with the Russian side on related issues. Putin said that the meeting was candid and constructive, both sides had discussions on a wide range of problems, and that the talks had enabled both Russia and the United States to find a basis for expanded cooperation. Russia and the United States were currently engaged in active cooperation, and they wished, through joint efforts, to establish a constructive, realistic and foreseeable Russian-US relationship. It is noteworthy that although the press conference proceeded in a lively atmosphere and the two sides were trying to create a sound atmosphere, the two sides failed to achieve substantive progress in major issues concerning global security. On the question relating to the missile defense system plan, Putin firmly expressed Russia's determination to oppose the United States program for establishing a national missile defense (NMD) system. He said that Russia and the United States bear special responsibility for safeguarding world peace and stability and for establishing a new international security framework, all these require close bilateral cooperation and international cooperation, any unilateral action may possibly bring difficulties in solving problems appeared in modern society. He gave further explanations, saying that the ABM (Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty) signed in 1972 by the Soviet Union and the United States remains today the basic cornerstone of international security.. With regard to the eastern expansion of NATO, Putin said that Russia does not regard NATO as a hostile organization, but Russia does not understand why NATO makes step-by-step offensive. He asked in reply, "As a military organization, NATO is pressing hard toward Russia's border, why?" At the press conference, Putin displayed to the reporters a recently deciphered document: A note sent by the Soviet government to NATO member states in 1954. The note indicated the intention of the Soviet government to join the NATO. Putin also disclosed to the reporters NATO's reply to the Soviet Union at that time: "There is no need to discuss such a totally unrealistic proposal." Observers have noticed that in his speech delivered in Warsaw before the meeting, Bush indicated that the United States would not change its original intention of supporting NATO's eastern expansion and its program for deploying the NMD system. From the meeting between Bush and Putin this time, it can be seen that the Russian-US relationship, cooling down due to the NMD system program since the new Bush administration took office and the "espionage war disturbance", is being improved. But no matter how hard Bush is lobbying and explaining, the US aim to contain and weaken Russia has not changed, the differences between Russia and the United States in such major issues as the ABM treaty, NATO's eastern expansion and their respective strategic interests are hard to bridge over. **** Chinese, Russian Presidents Talk on Phone Chinese President Jiang Zemin had a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin by appointment Monday evening in Shanghai. Putin briefed Jiang on his meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush on June 16 in Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia. Jiang thanked Putin for the briefing. Jiang said that he had taken notice that, in his meeting with Bush, Putin reiterated the principled position that the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-ballistic Missile Systems is a foundation stone for international security. The Chinese side appreciates it, Jiang said. Jiang said that Putin and Bush had both expressed their willingness to resolve the differences and problems in Russia-U.S. relations through dialogue and consultations. Jiang said he believes the dialogue and cooperation between Russia and the United States can help maintain world peace, security, and stability, Jiang said. Bush said that he will meet Jiang during the APEC meeting to be held in October in Shanghai and visit China, the Chinese president said, adding that he welcomes that. He said that he hopes this will help promote mutual understanding between China and the United States and the development of relations between the two countries. Putin said that the founding of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is an important event of historical significance. He thanked Jiang for the hospitality he was treated to during the SCO summit not long ago. Putin said that he is looking forward to Jiang's state visit to Russia. Jiang thanked Putin for his contributions to the success of the SCO summit which concluded several days ago. Jiang said that he is also looking forward to meeting with Putin in Moscow. **** DPRK Rejects US-Selected Topics for Negotiations The Democratic People's Republic of Korea <http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/data/dprk.html> (DPRK <http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/dprk.html> ) Monday criticized Washington for unilaterally setting out topics for proposed talks with Pyongyang, saying Washington intends to "disarm" the DPRK by doing so. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement that the issue of compensation for electricity shortage caused by the U.S. delay in building promised light-water reactors should be first discussed at the negotiations. In response to U.S. President George W. Bush's June 6 proposal to resume negotiations with the DPRK, the spokesman said U.S. attempt to set out and make public topics like nuclear, missile and conventional armed forces-related issues even before the two sides sit down, is unacceptable to the DPRK. "We cannot construe this other than an attempt by the U.S. to disarm the DPRK through negotiations," reads the statement carried by the official KCNA news agency. Questioning Washington's sincerity, the spokesman said such dialogues should be conducted on a fair and equal footing. "We cannot but interpret the U.S. administration's proposal for resuming dialogue as unilateral and conditional in its nature and hostile in its intention," the spokesman said. "The DPRK's conventional armed forces can never be a subject of discussion before the U.S. forces are pulled out of South Korea," the spokesman said. The spokesman called for the implementation of the provisions of the 1994 DPRK-U.S. agreed framework and the 2000 DPRK-U.S. Joint Communique, concerning the DPRK's nuclear and missile projects respectively. "The most realistic and urgent issue at present as regards the implementation of the DPRK-U.S. agreed framework... is to handle in a responsible manner the grave situation where the LWR (light- water reactor) provision is too much delayed," he said. Under the 1994 Geneva framework agreement between the U.S. and the DPRK, Washington agreed to provide two light water nuclear reactors and heavy oil as fuel energy to the DPRK. In return, the DPRK promised to phase out its graphite reactors capable of producing materials that can be used to make nuclear weapons. But the light-water project has made little progress so far and caused a power shortage to the DPRK. In a landmark visit to Washington by DPRK leader Kim Jong Il's envoy, Cho Myong Rok, in October 2000, Pyongyang and Washington signed a joint communique in which Pyongyang promised to stop launching long-range missiles while talks on the missile issue continue. After Bush came to power in January, he shut the door for U.S.- DPRK talks, saying relations with Pyongyang needed an overall review. **** China, Macedonia Sign Joint Communique on Normalization of Relations Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan <http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/people/tangjiaxuan.shtml> and his Macedonian counterpart Ilinka Mitreva signed Monday Joint Communique Between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Macedonia on the Normalization of Relations. The full text of the Joint Communique goes as follows: I. The Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Republic of Macedonia, in conformity with the interests and desires of the two peoples, have decided to normalize relations between the two countries effective from June 18 of 2001. II. The Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Republic of Macedonia are determined to conform to all the principles of the "Joint Communique between the People' s Republic of China and the Republic of Macedonia on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations". The two Governments have agreed to develop friendly relations and cooperation in conformity with the principles of mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, non interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit and peaceful coexistence. While maintaining sound political relations, both sides have agreed to make positive efforts to expand exchanges and cooperation in other fields, in particular the economic and trade field. Both sides have expressed their willingness to strengthen cooperation in international organizations. The Government of the republic of Macedonia recognizes emphatically that there is but one China in the world, that the Government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China and that Taiwan <http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/province/taiwan.html> is an inalienable part of the Chinese territory, and confirms that it shall not enter into official relations in whatever form or to engage in any official exchanges with Taiwan. III. The Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Republic of Macedonia have agreed to mutually re- establish embassies as soon as possible and exchange ambassadors. The two sides will, on the basis of mutual benefit and in accordance with international practice, mutually provide all necessary assistance for the performance of the functions of their respective diplomatic representatives. **** Taiwan Cuts Ties with Macedonia Taiwan <http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/province/taiwan.html> severed "diplomatic" ties with Macedonia on Monday as the Balkan nation prepared to restore relations with China's mainland. Taiwan will immediately close its "embassy" in Skopje and halt all cooperation projects, and will lodge a protest with Macedonia, said "Foreign Ministry" spokeswoman Katherine Chang. Macedonia had announced over the weekend that it would cut ties with Taipei in favor of Beijing <http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/province/beijing.html> 's support. Macedonian Foreign Minister Ilinka Mitreva has not yet formally signed an agreement to establish ties with China's mainland, but Chang said ``we have a grip and understanding on the contacts'' between the two sides. The move leaves Taiwan with just one European ally, the Vatican, among the small group of nations that extends diplomatic recognition to Taiwan. Taiwan's 28 remaining allies are mostly small, poor nations in Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean. **** Israeli Warplanes Violate Lebanese Air Space: TV Station Israel <http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/israel.html> i warplanes Monday morning broke sound barrier and invaded into Lebanon <http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/data/lebanon.html> , the Lebanese National Broadcasting Network (NBN) TV station reported. Several Israeli fighters violated Lebanese air space and hovered over the Bekaa Valley, eastern Lebanon, and in mountainous areas in central Lebanon, The planes broke several sound barriers, which could be heard in Beirut, said the report, without revealing whether the Lebanese army fired back to the planes. The U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has recorded 447 air invasions by Israeli planes into Lebanon from last October to the end of May, NBN said. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan promised to Lebanese President Emile Lahoud during his visit here last Friday that he would raise the problem to Israeli leaders. Lebanon called on the United Nations and the international community to exert pressure on Israel to stop the invasion of Lebanese airspace. Israel withdrew its troops from south Lebanon last May after a 22-year occupation. However, the Jewish country has not stopped the violation of airspace of Lebanon, which virtually has no air defense ability. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
