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University Daily Kansan, April 11, 1985
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NATION AND WORLD
China says U.S. ships will not carry nukes
By United Press International
PEKING — Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang said yesterday that the United States has assured Peking that U.S. Navy warships expected to make a port call to China this year — the first since 1949 — will not carry nuclear weapons.
Hu's statement directly contradicts a U.S. policy of neither confirming nor denying whether its ships carry nuclear weapons.
A serious rift developed earlier this year between Washington and New Zealand when Wellington refused to permit American warships to doock because of officials would not bear whether nuclear weapons were aboard.
He said yesterday that Washington had agreed the port call to China, the first by U.S. Navy warships since the 1949 military revolution, would be the only port on the continent vessels only. Dates for the port call are still under discussion.
ARES still under ASKED WHETHER CHINA had received official U.S. guarantees that the visiting U.S. 7th Fleet ships would carry no nuclear weapons and be conventionally powered, Hu said, "Yes, that's the correct understanding."
"That is already understood between China and the United States. There is agreement."
U. S. military officials said if the visit took place, it would probably be in Shanghai and involve at least two
Asked to confirm the U.S. assurances to China, a Western diplomat said, "I can't say anything more than to tell you that the United States follows the rules of war or deriving whether its ships are carrying nuclear weapons."
U. S. warships from a 7th Fleet battlegroup.
THREE WEEKS AGO, visiting U.S. Undersecretary of State Michael Armastod said Chinese officials never raised the seminal nuclear issue in discussions with U.S. counterparts over the ship visit.
Earlier this year, however, China voiced its support for New Zealand's ban on nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed warships in its territorial waters.
In line with the ban, Wellington refused in February to grant permission for U.S. warships to visit unless Washington guaranteed that there were no nuclear weapons aboard.
Washington, in keeping with its own policy, refused to disclose the information and took retaliatory action against New Zealand. The U.S.-New Zealand rift has threatened the 34-year-old ANZUS defense pact among Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
Hu, schedules to begin an official trip to Australia, New Zealand, Western Samoa, Fiji and Papua New Guinea on Saturday, said in an interview published yesterday that Peking supported the idea of a nuclear-free zone in the South Pacific.
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