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Cablegate: China: 1992 Annual Terrorism Report

R 130946Z NOV 92
FM AMEMBASSY BEIJING
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 0947

UNCLAS BEIJING 036243


S/CT FOR REAP

E.O. 12356 N/A
TAGS: PTER
SUBJECT: CHINA: 1992 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT

REF: STATE 338430

1. RESPONSES TO QUESTIONS RAISED REFTEL FOLLOW:

A. POST HAS NO RECORD OF ANY CHINESE GOVERNMENT
PROSECUTIONS INVOLVING INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM OR OF
ANY SIGNIFICANT ACTS OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM DURING THE
PAST YEAR.

B. POST HAS NO RECORD OF ANY EXTRADITIONS OR
ATTEMPTED EXTRADITIONS OF SUSPECTED TERRORISTS BY THE
PRC DURING THE PAST YEAR.

C. THE U.S. DOES NOT HAVE AN EXTRADITION TREATY WITH
THE PRC. CHINA HAS IN THE PAST TRANSFERRED CRIMINALS
TO COUNTRIES WITH WHICH IT DOES NOT HAVE AN
EXTRADITION TREATY.

D. RESPONSES OTHER THAN PROSECUTION: THE CHINESE
OFFICIAL POSITION IS THAT THE PRC GOVERNMENT IS
OPPOSED TO ALL FORMS OF TERRORISM AND DOES NOT SUPPORT
OR HARBOR TERRORISTS.
E. WE ARE NOT AWARE OF PRC PARTICIPATION IN MAJOR
COUNTERTERRORISM EFFORTS.

F. THE PRC PUBLICLY OPPOSES TERRORISM. THE EMBASSY
HAS NO RECORD OF PRC SUPPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL
TERRORISM. THERE IS A PLO MISSION IN BEIJING.

G. THERE HAVE BEEN NO CHINESE STATEMENTS OF SUPPORT
FOR A TERRORIST-SUPPORTING COUNTRY ON A TERRORISM
ISSUE.

H. THERE HAS BEEN NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN THE PRC'S
ATTITUDE TOWARDS TERRORISM OVER THE COURSE OF THE PAST
YEAR.

I. THE PRC IS NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE MANDATORY
SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE
SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION BY ALL MEMBER STATES IN THE
LIBYAN DIPLOMATIC PRESENCE.

ROY

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