Jian Zemin, Chinese President visit

[dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Subject: Jian Zemin, Chinese President visits Chirac and France -Oct 22-26/Day 2

First, a correction. Jack Lang DID invite him to the French National
Assembly, and they gave him what is described in the papers, a warm
welcome. Reporteurs sans frontieres president Robert Menard, continues
among others, Francois Holland, (PS) to strongly denounce the visit of
the Chinese dictator, chef d'etat, head of the army and head of the
communist party.

Last night Jiang Zemin dined with Raymond Barre, mayor of Lyon, in Lyon.
You should recall Barre is formerly on Total international payroll, and
also enjoyed the hospitality of Mobutu. Chirac is having lunch with him
today, and they pass the weeknend together in his small chateau in
Corrèze, part of his private-personal five day stay in FRANCE.

French elite snipers were on the rooftops as french security personnel
closed off and evcuated entire streets and houses near the mayor's
building, in Lyon, and the hotel where the Chinese dictator was booked.

Raymond BArre on Radio Monte Carlo defends the french interests saying
that you cannot not ignore "one billion people". Business is business.

ds

Dawn Star wrote:
> 
> French President Chirac is doing all he can to make the Chinese
> President feel comfortable at his small village fiefdom, in Corrèze,
> France. Remember that Chirac went to China two years ago, the the spring
> of 1997, a voyage largely critized by the French political opposition
> and human rights groups. This time, French leftist leadrs Francois
> Holland and Jack Lang, President of the French National Assembly Foreign
> Affaires Commission, have openly crticized the "personal démarche" of
> Chirac's political generosity to the dictator,denounced the visit,
> saying "You cannot on e one hand condemn Pinochet, and on the other roll
> out the red carpet for the Chinese president".
> 
>  And yesterday, French right-centrist leader Dominique Paillé (UDF) , on
> national radio called it "inopportune" and "shocking".
> 
> A lot of demonstrations are planned. Former french prime minister, the
> socialist Laurent Fabius, president of the Naional Assembly refused to
> formally invite the chinese dictator into the building.
> 
> Chinese dissident, Wei Jingsheng, one of the nominees for the Nobel
> Peace Prize, and leader of the Peking uprising, exiled in 1997, will
> lead a demonstration at Brive a few kms from the Jian Zemin's meeting
> then in Bity...
> 
> ds