China urges US to end military surveillance near its shores.Byline: ANI Beijing Beijing (bā-jĭng) or Peking (pē-kĭng, pā–), city (1994 est. urban pop. 6,093,300; 1994 est. total pop. 7,240,700), capital of the People's Republic of China. It is in central Hebei prov. , Aug 28(ANI): After a series of territorial disputes
The Chinese Ministry of National Defense made the request during a session about maritime safety involving the countries on Thursday, which came after both the countries agreed to resume military relations during the two-day Strategic and Economic Dialogue (SAED SAED Selected Area Electron Diffraction SAED Scale for Assessing Emotional Disturbance SAED Semi Automatic External Defibrillator ) held in Washington in July. "China believes the constant US military air and sea surveillance and survey operations in China's exclusive economic zone led to military confrontations between the two sides," The China Daily quoted a ministry official, as saying. "The way to resolve China-US maritime incidents is for the US to change its surveillance and survey operations policies against China. Decrease and eventually stop such operations," the official added. Chinese ships have confronted US surveillance ships near its territory on five occasions. Meanwhile, spokeswoman at the US Embassy in China Susan Stevenson, confirmed the report about the request, and said that US government position has not changed. Stevenson further supported an earlier statement made by US Undersecretary of Defense Michele Flournoy Michele Flournoy is the president and co-founder of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), which is a foreign policy think tank founded in January, 2007. Prior to her tenure at CNAS, she was a Senior Advisor for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Pentagon , which said that the US "exercises its freedom of navigation The United States' Freedom of Navigation program challenges territorial claims on the world's oceans and airspace that are considered excessive by the United States, using diplomatic protests and/or by interference. while putting emphasis on taking care to avoid any unwanted incidents". The US says that waters 12 miles from China's shoreline are open to shipping, while China says that US should not venture without permission inside its 200-mile exclusive economic zone. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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