9
University Daily Kansan/Wednesday, January 13, 1988
China rejects idea for Soviet summit
The Associated Press
BEIJING - China yesterday indirectly rejected a Soviet suggestion for a summit between the two communist powers, repeating the condition that Vietnamese forces must withdraw from Cambodia.
The Foreign Ministry issued this statement responding to an overture by Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev for a summit:
"Chairman Deng Xiaoping has made quite clear the conditions for a high-level meeting between China and the Soviet Union. It is the strong aspiration of the international community that Vietnam should withdraw all its troops from Kampuchea (Cambodia) promptly."
Soviet-backed Vietnam invaded Cambodia in December 1978, outing the Klimber Rouge regime supported by China, creating a new communist government.
China previously has included two
other conditions for talks between the leaders: a withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan and a reduction of Soviet military forces on the 3,000-mile Sino-Soviet border.
This time the ministry statement did not mention those issues.
Gorbachev, in a recent interview in Moscow with the Chinese weekly magazine Outlook, made the summit conference suggestion.
The last top-level meeting was in 1969, when Soviet Prime Minister Alexei N. Kosygin met with Premier Chou Enlai. Ten years earlier, Chinese and Soviet party leaders Mao Tse-tung and Nikita S. Khrushev met; but the following year, the two nations split in an angry dispute over ideological matters.
In his remarks on Sino-Soviet relations, Gorbachev said "both sides believe the objective conditions exist for holding a summit."
9:30-5:30 Mon.-Sat.
'til 8:30 p.m. Thurs.
Sun. 1-5
H.E.R.O.
Higher Education Rescue Operation Lobby Day '88
On Tuesday January 19 nearly 200 students will visit the statehouse in Topeka and lobby for increases in State funding for KU
There's still time to join our effort!
Call the Student Senate office at 864-3710 for more information.
Just think of it as a 4x4 tanning booth.
See Us in the
Southern Hills Mall Saturday, Jan.16th
8:30 a.m.-Midnight
$7995.
No Payments until May!
*Plus Freight and dealer installed options With approved credit
Olathe Ford-Suzuki
I-35 & 150 Hwy. Kansas City (913)782-0881
30 minutes from Lawrence!