NEWS - India Says China Installing

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India Says China Installing Equipment in Myanmar

          Reuters
          04-JUN-98

          NEW DELHI, June 4 (Reuters) - Indian
          Defence Minister George Fernandes said
          on Thursday that China had been helping
          Myanmar install surveillance and
          communications equipment in some of its
          islands in the Bay of Bengal. 

          Fernandes, in reply to a question, told the
          lower house of parliament that Chinese
          personnel have been visiting Myanmar to
          install the system. 

          ``They (Myanmar authorities) have further
          informed that the monitoring facilities are
          being utilised for surveillance of their
          'Exclusive Economic Zone','' he added. 

          Last month Fernandes said China had
          built a sophisticated electronic
          surveillance base in Myanmar's Coco
          Islands, from where Beijing could monitor
          activities along India's eastern coast. 

          Myanmar denied the allegations and
          China's foreign ministry expressed
          ``utmost grief and resentment'' over
          Fernandes' comments.