UNCLASSIFIED us Department of State Casedngii-Rg mmgd Doc No 305992080 Date ea g H50 I'M hm a 99 03mm A CONFIDENTIAL W7 me 590 - 15 6 wsa RELEASE IN PART VaIendm Dude - I 1393 31 25xe35 10 29 99 03 17 AM A To usnwusowousnwousnp wouswzousoretousop ousnmousnp ousowusnwousmousbp - souczousnmusnp - uswousowousnpi 1psxousnp@ousop CC Subject EXDIS OCTOBER 28 LUNCH WITH CHINESE VFM YANG JIECHI INTERNATIONAL ISSUES AND MORE ON TAIWAN C DECAPTIONED Of ce Of The Secretary Of Defense B1 Executive Support Center Rm 30912 703 769 9329 95 364-9329 25X6 FAX 7035974920 Secure 99I0290745 SUBJECT UIS OCTOBER 28 LUNCH WITH CHINESE VFM YANG IIECHI INTERNATIONAL ISSUES TAIWAN - RH RUEKJCS 4739 PRECEDENCE IMMEDIATE CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL DIG 2909432 OCT 99 FROM AMEMBASSY BEIJING TO RU WASHDC IMMEDIATE SIBS INFO TAIPEI 2324- RUEHKOIAMEMBASSY TOKYO 5221 JAKARTA 0953 RU NEW DELHI 0715 ISLAMABAD 4434 RUEHUUAMEMBASST SEOUL 6261 RUESLEIAMCONSUL SHANGHAI 0763 SHENYANG RU GUANGZHOU B983 RUEHHKIAMCONSUL HONG KONG 6867 RUEHLOIAMEMBASSY I PARIS 0658 RUCNDTIUSMISSION USUN NEW YORK I 78 CI LOCAL REMARK ORIGINAL COPY SPECAT HANDLING I I 1- A BEIJING 0 0155 AUTHORITY Charles Lahiguera Senior Reviewed Is 2 0 12958 050 1 6005 TAGS PEEL FARM EFIN ENRGSUBJECT LIIS OCTOBER 28 LIINCII WITH CHINESE WM YANG INTERNATIONAL ISSUES AND MORE ON TAIWAN U CLASSIFIED BY CHARGE AL WILLIAM C MCCAHILL IR REASONS 1 5 BID Classification Extended on 07 07 2016 Class CONFIDENTIAL Authority DSCG 11-1 Declassify on 10 28 2039 SUMMARY I C DURING AN OCTOBER 28 LUNCHEON UIS PICKERING AND VFM YANG JIECHI EXCHANGED VIEWS ON RUSSIA THE KOREAN CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Doc No C05992080 Date 03 28 2017 UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case gN g m ggcl Doc No 005992080 Date 03 28 2017 CONFIDENTIAL PENINSULA SOUTH ASIA INDONESIA AND EAST TIMOR AND 0V B1 25X6 PICKERING ED HIS COUNTERPART ON THE PERRY PROCESS AND THE STATUS OF PLANNING FOR A HIGH-LEVEL VISIT To WASHINGTON B1 25xs SHARED uxs OPTIMISM REGARDING THE new mom DING A AL TEAM To INVESTIGATE HUMAN RIGHTS PROBLEMS IN EAST TIMOR YANG ALSO REITERATED FAMILIAR THATW BASED on TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY FOR THE LEGITIMATE RIGHTS A NIC GROUPS IN THE B1 25xe END oh RUSSIA SING-RUSSIAN TRADE RELATIONS ENERGY CORRIDOR 2 C RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA WERE DEVELOPING ACCORDING TO VFM YANG HE EXPRESSED DISAPPOINTMENT HOWEVER THAT ECONOMIC AND TRADE RELATIONS HAD LAGGED BEHIND POLITICAL RELATIONS IT APPEARED UNLIKELY THAT THE VOLUME OF BILATERAI TRADE WOULD REACH USD 20 BILLION BY THE END OF THE CENTURY AS HAD PROJECTED STILL ECONOMIC AND TRADE RELATIONS HAD MADE WITH DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS BRIGHTEST IN THE ENERGY SECTOR RUSSIA AND CHINA WERE ON A NUCLEAR ENERGY PROJECT IN JIANGSU PROVINCE YANG NOTED UIS PICKERING SAID THAT THERE WAS STRONG LLS INTEREST IN POSSIBLE PARTICIPATION IN CONSTRUCTION OF AN ENERGY CORRIDOR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND CHINA HE ALSO MENTIONED INTEREST IN THE PROJECT BY MONGOLIA WHERE HE HAD JUST VISITED WHICH COULD BENEFIT BOTH AS A COLLECTOR OF TRANSIT FEES AND AS A CONSUMER RUSSIAN INTERNAL POLITICS CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Doc No 005992080 Date 03 28 2017 UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case ghf g mmg Doc NO 005992080 Date 03 28 2017 CONFIDENTIAL 25X6 4 C AS FOR THE OVERALL SITUATION PICKERING NOTED THAT THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN RUSSIA WAS IMPORTANT TO BOTH THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA THERE WERE VARIOUS REPORTS ABOUT THE HEALTH OF PRESIDENT YELTSIN BUT THE PRESIDENT HAD 6000' IN A TELEVISION APPEARANCE THAT MORNING OCTOBER 28 PICKERING HOPED THAT YELTSIN WOULD BE ABLE TO I EXPECTED THE DUMA ELECTIONS BER 19 TO SERVE AS AN INDICATION OF WHERE RUSSIA WAS HEADING IN THE RUN-UP TO THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN 2000 TURNING TO DEVELOPMENTS IN CHECHNYA NW CAMPAI AND THAT IT WOULD PLAY A ROLE IN DETERMINING FUTURE FOR EXAMPLE PRIME MINISTER PUTIN HAD GAINED MUCH-PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HIS HARD- LINE ACTIONS AND AGAINST OPPOSITION FORCES IN - CHECHNYA IN THE END HOWEVER PICKERING PREDICT ED THAT PUTIN WOULD BE UNABLE TO CH ON CHECHNYA AND WOULD he as n Iyr IN A PARTICULARLY STRONG Tosmo'm W To 9 PRESIDENHAL ELECTION RUSSIANECONOMT 3- C 6 L 9- 22 7 s C PICKERING AND YANG AGREED THAT DESPITE Wm a - DIEHCULTIES THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY HAD sUvaED THE ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS AD BEEN ABLE TO MAINTAIN THE STABILITY OF ITS EXCHANGE RATE PICKERING OUT THE COUNTRY HAD ALSO BENEFITED FROM THE INCREASE IN PETROLEUM PRICES WHICH HAD ALLOWED IT TO BUILD UP ITS FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVES AND INCREASE ITS REVENUES THE QUESTION Now WHETHER IN THE WAKE OF THE ASIAN HNANCIAI CRISIS RUSSIA WOULD BE ABLE To MAKE THE TOUGH DECISIONS rr NEEDED TO MAKE EG TO ADDRESS THE IMPACT or common ON THE ABILITY TO MANAGE ITS ECONOMY MANY WERE CAL PICKERING NOTED 25X6 U S -RUSSIAN DIALOGUE ABM START 6 C ON THE BILATERAL FRONT PICKERING STATED THAT THE ITED STATES CONTINUED TO DI i AME - ALLISTIC MISSILE ABM TREATY As I WELL AS PROGRESS ON AR CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Doc 005992080 Date 03 28 2017 UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Doc No 005992080 Date 03 28 2017 51 25X6 0 UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Doc No 005992080 Date 03 28 2017 UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Casewh - y mm Doc No 005992080 Date 03 28 2017 CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Doc No 005992080 Date 03 28 2017 II C THE UNITED OWN STUDIES HAD ALSO LED - WASHINGTON TO THE CONCLUSION THAT PRESSURE ALONE COULD NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM PICKERING ACKNOWLEDGE THERE ALSO HAD TO BE A PERSUASIVE ELEMENT THAT WOULD LEAD THE DPRK TO MOVE IN A POSITIVE DIRECTION THAT SAID NORTH KOREA REMAINED ONE OF THE MOST THREATENING REGIMES IN THE REGION AND THE WORLD IF THE UNITED STATES CHINA FAILED TO DEAL WITH THE SITUATION PROPERLY GREATER PROBLEMS WERE BOUND TO ERUPT PERRY REPORT I2 C REDUCING TENSION ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA WAS IN THE INTEREST OF BOTH THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA PICKERING STRESSED AS BEIJING WAS AWARE FROM THE BRIEFING THAT DEPARTMENT COUNSELOR WENDY SHERMAN HAD PROVIDED TO CHARGE LIU XIAOMING IN WASHINGTON THE RECENTLY RELEASED PERRY REPORT RECOMMENDED THAT U S POLICY TOWARD NORTH KOREA SHOULD BECOME MORE COMPREHENSIVE AND INTEGRATED THE UNITED STATES SHOULD ALSO NORMALIZE RELATIONS WITH THE DPRK AT A MARKEDLY FASTER RATE AS THE NORTH TOOK STEPS TO ADDRESS U S CONCERNS ABOUT ITS NUCLEAR AND MISSILE PROGRAMS IN THE NEAR TERM NORTH KOREA HAD AGREED TO A MISSILE TEST MORATORILIM WHILE U S -DPRK DISCUSSIONS TO IMPROVE REIATIONS CONTINUED FOR ITS PART THE UNITED STATES HAD TAKEN THE STEP - WHICH WAS REVERSIBLE - OF EASING SANCHONS 13 C THE UNITED STATES HOPED THAT THE DPRK WOULD WORK WITH IT TO REDUCE TENSIONS ON THE PENINSULA PICKERING CONHNUED WASHINGTON MUST BE PREPARED To PURSUE OTHER OPTIONS HOWEVER IF THE NORTH WOULD NOT COOPERATE THE UNITED STATES WOULD CONTINUE To CARRY OUT THE AGREED FRAMEWORK EVEN AS IT SOUGHT VERIFIABLE ASSURANCES FROM THE NORTH THAT IT WAS NOT PURSUING A NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM EFFORTS TO BRING ABOUT A FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE IN U S -DPRK REIATIONS HAD THE FULL SUPPORT OF THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION AND THE GOVERNMENTS OF BOTH THP ROK AND JAPAN PICKERING NOTED THE UNITED STATES WOULD CONTINUE To CONSULT WITH CHINA AS THE PERRY PROCESS UNFOLDED AND CONTINUING EFFORTS To COUNSEL PYONGYANG TO EXERCISE RESTRAINT HIGH-LEVEL DPRK VISIT TO WASHINGTON CONFIDENTIAL 25X6 UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Doc No 005992080 Date 03 28 2017 CONFIDENTIAL 14 C IN THE WAKE OF THE BERLIN TALKS PICKERING TOLD YANG THE UNITED STATES EXPECTED PYONGYANG TO SEND A HIGH- LEVEL VISITOR TO WASHINGTON BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR TO RECIPROCATE THE MAY TRIP TO PYONGYANG BY DR PERRY AND AMBASSADOR SHERMAN ALTHOUGH WASHINGTON HAD HOPED FOR SUCH A VISIT TO OCCUR BEFORE THE END OF OCTOBER WE WERE NOT DISCOURAGED BY THE DELAY ON THE CONTRARY THERE WERE INDICATIONS THAT THE DELAY WAS DUE IN PART TO-DPRK DELIBERATIONS ON WHO TO SEND TO WASHINGTON IF THAT WERE TRUE THE DELAY REFLECTED FAVORABLY ON THE SERIOUSNESS WITH WHICH THE DPRK WAS TAKING THE PROCESS IN ANY CASE WASHINGTON WAS ENCOURAGED BY DECISION TO SEND A HIGH-LEVEL ENVOY IN FACT NORTH KOREAN VICE FOREIGN MINISTER KIM GYEGWAN AND SPECIAL ENVOY CHARLES KARTMAN WERE DUE TO BEGIN MEETING ON NOVEMBER I 5 TO DISCUSS PREPARATIONS FOR THE VISIT PICKERING NOTED THAT HE WANTED TO SHARE NEWS OF THE KARTMAN-KIM MEETING WITH HIS CHINESE COUNTERPART EVEN THOUGH THAT INFORMATION HAD NOT BEEN MADE PUBLIC RESPONDING TO A QUESTION FROM NING PICKERING CONFIRMED THAT THERE HAD BEEN NO DECISIONS MADE YET REGARDING THE TIMING AND LEVEL OF THE EXPECTED VISIT WASHINGTON CONTINUED TO AWAIT A RESPONSE ON THESE POINTS FROM PYONGYANG FOUR-PARTY TALKS 15 C UIS PICKERING EXPRESSED HOPE THAT THE SEVENTH ROUND OF THE FOUR-PARTY TALKS WOULD TAKE PLACE BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR HE ANTICIPATED THAT THE IMPROVED ATMOSPHERE IN US-DPRK RELATIONS WOULD REINFORCE AND STRENGTHEN THE FOUR-PARTY PROCESS COMMENTING ON THE LAST ROUND OF TALKS PICKERING WAS CONFIDENT THAT THE DRAFT TREATY TABLED BY CHINA THEN WOULD SERVE AS A USEFUL BASIS FOR FUTURE DISCUSSIONS THE UNITED STATES APPRECIATED THE DEPTH AND STRENGTH OF PARTICIPATION IN THE FOUR-PARTY PROCESS DESPITE THE FACT THAT PROGRESS IN THE TALKS LAGGED BEHIND THE BIIATERAL LI S -DPRK DIALOGUE WASHINGTON COU NTED ON COMMITMENT AND WILLINGNESS To cg N'Il'lgdUE SEEKING A PEACEFUL RESOLUTION ON THE KOREAN B1 25KB 16 C THE ROK HAD PROPOSED WORKING-LEVEL TALKS IN NOVEMBER AHEAD OF THE SEVENTH ROUND OF THE FOUR-PARTY TALKS NING SAID IF THE OTHER THREE PARTIES SUPPORTED THIS IDEA CHINA HAD NO OBJECTIONS NING SUGGESTED THAT THE WORKING-LEVEL TALKS COULD BE USED TO SET A DATE FOR THE CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Doc No 005992080 Date 03 28 2017 UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Doc No 005992080 Date 03 28 2017 CONFIDENTIAL FORMAL savenm scum or TALKS 3511714 asm POINTED otn' THAT TWO NEW GOVERNMENTS HAD ARRIVED IN POWER IN THE REGION IN DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT OF MUSHARRAF THROUGH AN UNFORTUNATE TAKEOVER AND THE VAJPAYEE COALITION THROUGH A COMMENDABLE PROCESS THE HAD WORKED OUT DIFFERENT APPROACHES GIVEN THE REALITIES OF THE TWO COUNTRIES THE U S WANTED FUNDAMENTALLY TO IMPROVE RELATIONS WITH INDIA BUILDING ON PAST EFFORTS WITH THE VAIPAYEE GOVERNMENT VAIPAYEE AND HIS CABINET HAD SAID ENCOURAGING THINGS ABOUT THEIR DESIRE FOR ECONOMIC REFORM SIGNING AND DIALOGUE MUCH WOULD DEFEND ON HOW WELL THE INDIANS FOLLOWED THROUGH INCLUDING WITH CONCRETE PROGRESS ON THE NONPROLIFERATION BENCHMARKS AND REDUCING TENSIONS AS WELL AS WITH RESPECT TO INDIAN WILLINGNESS TO CONTINUE THE DIALOGUE STARTED AT LAHORE THE NUCLEAR ISSUE 18 C THE SENATE VOTE ON CTBT HAD COMPLICATED OUR EFFORTS TO PERSUADE INDIA AND PAKISTAN TO SIGN THE TREATY PICKERING NOTED BUT WE WOULD CONTINUE TO ENCOURAGE PROGRESS ON PROLIFERATION BENCHMARKS WE WANTED TO STEER INDIA AWAY FROM ITS DRAFT AND TOWARD NUCLEAR AND MISSILE RESTRAINT INDIAN CONFIDENCE IN INTENTIONS WOULD BE VERY IMPORTANT AND WE WERE GLAD TO SEE CHINA MOVING TO BUILD A SECURITY DIALOGUE WITH INDIA THE ALSO WANTED TO INFLUENCE MILITARY AWAY FROM DANGEROUS AND WE HOPED CHINA WOULD JOIN US IN INFLUENCING PAKISTAN TOWARD THE SAME GOAL WE ESPECIALLY HOPED CHINA WOULD SUPPORT A MULTILATERAL FISSILE MATERIAL PRODUCTION MORATORIUM THE IMPROVEMENT OF U S RELATIONS WITH INDIA WOULD NOT BE AT THE EXPENSE OF CHINA OR PAKISTAN PICKERING STRESSED ADDING THAT THE U S VIEWS THE PAKISTAN MILITARY TAKEOVER I9 C TH U5 COULD NOT CON AND SETBACK IN D ER IND TO THE PROBLEMS OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT NOR TO THE RELIEF OVER THE MILITARY TAKEOVER WE WERE URGING MUSHARRAF TO SET A TIMETABLE OR A SERIES OF CONCRETE STEPS TO RETURN TO CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT BUT WOULD NOT CALL FOR A RESTORATION CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Doc No 005992080 Date 03 28 2017 25X6 UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Doc No 005992080 Date 03 28 2017 CONFIDENTIAL OF NAWAZ SHARIF THE OF RETURN TO DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN HOW SOON THE U S HOPED CHINA ALSO WOULD ENCOURAGE PAKISTAN TO RETURN TO DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT 20 C THE U S WAS PREPARED TO WORK WITH THE GOVERNMENT IN PAKISTAN PICKERING SAID BUT WE HAD SIGNALED THAT IT WOULD NOT L WHAT MUSHARRAF HAD SAID ABOUT DEMOCRACY ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING NONPROLIFERATION AND RELATIONS WITH INDIA WAS ENCOURAGING BUT WE HAD TOLD HIM THAT ACTIONS WOULD SPEAK MUCH LOUDER THAN WORDS THE U S WOULD PUSH INDIA TO RESUME DIALOGUE WITH PAKISTAN DESPITE THE MILITARY TAKEOVER I WITH MUSHARRAF AFTER KARGIL BUT WE HAD SAID THAT THE REDUCTION OF REGIONAL TENSION WAS TOO IMPORTANT TO IGNORE OR TO WAIT FOR AN ELECTED GOVERNMENT THE U S WOULD CONTINUE TO PUSH PAKISTAN TO DO ALL IT COULD TO REBUILD TRUST THE SITUATION WAS COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT AND CLOSER TO CHINA THAN TO THE U S PICKERING HOPED THE US AND CHINA COULD CONTINUE TO BE IN TOUCH ON THE SITUATION 25X6 AND ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Doc No 305992080 Date 03 28 2017 UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Doc No 005992080 Date 03 28 2017 CONFIDENTIAL mun-mom 23 C PICKERING SAID THAT LEGISLATIVE PREVIOUSLY IMPOSED ON INDIA WOULD CONTINUE AND THAT THOSE WAIVED SHOULD ALSO CONTINUE TO BE WAIVED WAIVERS FOR PAKISTAN WERE LIMITED TO CERTAIN SANCT IONS ON BANKING AND AGRICULTURAL SALES WHILE NO DECISION HAD BEEN MADE ON IMF AND IDRB LENDING IN THE PAST WE HAD TAKEN STEPS TO AVOID CATASTROPHIC DISRUPTION TO THE PAKISTAN ECONOMY AS LONG AS PAKISTAN MET THE APPROPRIATE CONDITIONS AND IMF STANDARDS PICKERING NOTED INDONESIA 24 C YANG NOTED THAT CHINA HAD CONGRATULATED THE NEW INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT WHICH HAD ALSO INDICATED THAT IT ATTACH ED IMPORTANCE TO RELATIONS WITH CHINA THE CHINESE HOPED TO CONTINUE DEVELOPING MUTUALLY BENEFICAL COOPERATION AND FRIENDSHIP WITH INDONESIA INDONESIA PLAYED A LEADING ROLE IN ASEAN YANG THE DEVELOPMENT OF SING- INDONESIAN RELATIONS SERVED ALSO TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF RELATIONS WITH ASEAN INDONESIA AND EAST TIMOR 25 C THE U S ALSO HAD WELCOMED NEW GOVERNMENT PICKERING WE WERE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE SITUATION AS THE GOVERNMENT HAD MADE BALANCED CHOICES FOR THE NEW CABINET TURNING TO EAST TIMOR PICKERING NOTED THAT THE ILS AND CHINA HAD COOPERATED CLOSELY IN THE UN REGARDING THE ELECTION THE INTERIM FORCE AND THE TRANSITIONAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE UN THE U S WAS COMMITTED TO THE SUCCESS OF THE EFFORT AND WOULD BE PROVIDING PERSONNEL TO THE UN OPERATION THE U S ALSO SUPPORTED A HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF INQUIRY TO INVESTIGATE THE BLOODSHED AND CHAOS OF SEPTEMBER THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT TO RECONCILIATION IN EAST TIMOR AND FOR THE WORK OF THE UN IN THE FIELD PICKERING NOTED THAT MARY ROBINSON THE UN COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HAD SAID THAT SHE WOULD BE COORDINATING WITH THE INDONESIAN NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION IN THIS EFFORT THE LLS HOPED THAT THE NEW INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT WOULD SUSTAIN REFORMS AND ECONOMIC CHANGE AND THAT IT WOULD DEAL IN A FAIR AND STRAIGHTFORWARD WAY WITH SEPARATISM THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL IN COMMON BETWEEN US AND CHINESE VIEWS ON INDONESIA PICKERING OBSERVED KOSOVO 26 C PICKERING THEN TURNED TO THE LEGAL AND JURIDICAL RELATIONS OF KOSOVO TO THE FRY THAT ISSUE WAS IMPORTANT CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Doc No 305992080 Date 03 28 2017 UNCLASSIFIED U S Dep rtment of State Casewh g mmg Doc No 005992080 Date 03 28 2017 UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Doc No C05992080 Date 03 28 2017 CONFIDENTIAL BECAUSE FRY SOVEREIGNTY HAD TO BE SUBJECT TO THE NARROW LIMITATIONS OF UNSC RESOLUTION I244 BORDERS WERE FIXED WITHIN THE FRY AS A DE RE MATTER DURING THE PERIOD OF UN ADMINISTRATION BUT THE UN ALSO COMMITTED TO ADMINISTERING KOSOVO UNTIL THERE WAS A RESOLUTION OF ITS FINAL STATUS THE FUTURE STATUS OF KOSOVO WAS EXPLICITLY LEFT OPEN PENDING A FINAL SETTLEMENT THE U S DID NOT SUPPORT INDEPENDENCE BUT THAT OUTCOME WAS NOT DETERMINED BY RESOLUTION 1244 ACTIONS WERE NOT DESIGNED TO AFFECT THE OUTCOME BUT TO ENSURE THE SUCCESS OF THE MISSION SO WE HAD SUPPORTED HIM EVEN WHEN HE HAD TO MAKE DIFFICULT DECISIONS THE UN ADMINISTRATION IN KOSOVO COULD NOT SUCCEED IF THE EVER-INFLATING DINAR REMAINED AS THE CURRENCY SO WE HAD SUPPORTED USE OF THE GERMAN MARK SIMILARLY THE KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS WAS DESIGNED TO ENSURE THAT THE KLA DID NOT GO UNDERGROUND AND BECOME UNCONTROLLABLE KFOR AND UNMIK WERE AWARE OF THE RISKS AND WERE WORKING TO BUILD A CORPS THAT WOULD BE MULTI-ETHNIC AND STAY STRICTLY WITHIN A CIVILIAN MISSION YANG RESPONDS ON INDONESIA AND KOSOVO 27 C THE U S CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD CHINESE POSITIONS ON KOSOVO AND INDONESIA YANG SAID CHINA DID NOT THINK IT APPROPRIATE TO SEND AN INTERNATIONAL TEAM TO INVESTIGATE HUMAN RIGHTS PROBLEMS IN EAST TIMOR AMBASSADOR QIN HUASUN AND SEVERAL OTHER CHINESE REPRESENTATIVES HAD MADE THAT POINT CLEAR REGARDING KOSOVO CHINA ALWAYS EMPHASIZED THAT A SETTLEMENT SHOULD BE BASED ON RESPECT FOR THE TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AND SOVEREIGNTY OF YUGOSLAVIA AND ON THE BASIS OF GUARANTEEING THE LEGITIMATE RIGHTS OF EVERY ETHNIC GROUP IN THE REGION POSITION WAS THAT ALL PARTIES SHOULD EARNESTLY IMPLEMENT RESOLUTION 1244 CHINA WAS READY TO EXCHANGE VIEWS ON THE ISSUES OF CONCERN TO EVERY SIDE IN NEW YORK WASHINGTON OR CONFIDENTIAL 25X6 UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Casewh g mmg4 Doc No 005992080 Date 03 28 2017 I a CONFIDENTIAL 30 U PICKERING HAS CLEARED THIS MESSAGE MONARTY ET #4739 CONFIDENTIAL B1 25X6 UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Doc No 005992080 Date 03 28 2017 I                     National Security Archive    Suite 701  Gelman Library  The George Washington University    2130 H Street  NW  Washington  D C  20037    Phone  202 994‐7000  Fax  202 994‐7005  nsarchiv@gwu edu