ACCESSION NUMBER:367460 FILE ID:POL103 DATE:11/14/94 TITLE:ADD STATE DEPARTMENT REPORT, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14 (11/14/94) TEXT:*94111403.POL ADD STATE DEPARTMENT REPORT, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14 (Iraq-Kuwait, China-missiles, Bosnia) (760) NEWS BRIEFING -- Deputy spokesman Christine Shelly discussed the following topics: IRAQ MUST COMPLY WITH ALL SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS The deputy spokesman emphasized that "Iraq must fully comply with all of the relevant U.N. Security Council resolutions before there can be any discussion of modifications to the sanctions regime" imposed by the United Nations. The Security Council met November 14 to review Iraq's compliance record over the last 60 days. It is the United States' "very strong view," Shelly said, as well as "the view of all of the Security Council members that Iraq cannot just pick and chose among its obligations to the international community. Their obligations have been stated very explicitly in the resolution which ended the gulf war (U.N. Security Council Resolution 687)," she said. Shelly also noted that Ambassador Madeleine Albright, the U.S. permanent representative to the U.N., met briefly November 14 with Tariq Aziz, Iraq's deputy prime minister, in her capacity as president of the Security Council. During the meeting Aziz gave her documentation which relates to Iraq's recognition of Kuwait's borders. She later met with Kuwait's foreign minister. "Our position on this remains clear," the deputy spokesman emphasized. "Normalization of Iraq's relations with the international community must rest on the assurance of Iraq's peaceful intentions." U.S. NOT WRITING OFF PAST IN CHINA MISSILE TRADE The deputy spokesman told questioners that the United States is not "writing off the past" in dealing with China's sale of missile components to Pakistan. Shelly took issue with a New York Times article that said the U.S. has offered to forgive China's violations of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) and waive possible trade sanctions if China admits the violations. "There were some parts of that story which were not entirely correct," she said. 1he deputy spokesman said "there was a sort of inference that we were writing off the past, and that is not the case. We are very concerned with what happened in the past." "It has been U.S. policy to work with China to build on its recent commitments" to the MTCR, the deputy spokesman pointed out. Under terms of an October 4 joint statement signed in Washington, the U.S. and China agreed to hold in-depth discussions on the MTCR as a next step. "We intend to work toward a Chinese commitment to control the missile related exports according to the current MTCR guidelines, and it's in that context that we wish to better understand exactly what has occurred in the past," she explained. "We'll be continuing discussions with the Chinese to that effect," Shelly added. FIGHTING AROUND BIHAC SOURCE OF GREAT CONCERN TO U.S. The deputy spokesman said the continuing fighting around Bihac in northwestern Bosnia "is obviously a source of concern" to the United States, NATO allies and the U.N. Protection Force (UNPROFOR). "We are all watching the developments with great concern," she said, adding that the five-nation Contact Group will continue to exchange information about the fighting in the Bihac pocket which continues on three fronts as Bosnian government troops try to repel Serb forces from both Bosnia and Croatia. "We understand that the Serbs have regained about 40 percent of the land that they've lost in recent fighting," she said, noting that government forces have warned they would attack the so-called Krajina Serbs from Croatia if the fighting continued. "We're certainly hoping overall that the fighting can be checked and the parties will get back to...the negotiating table," she said. "We have said many, many times that the Bosnian Serbs have been the overwhelming aggressor and in that context, we certainly expressed some understanding for the efforts by the Bosnian government forces to get back some of that territory, particularly since many months ago they signed up for the Contact Group plan," Shelly said. "The Bosnian Serbs have not shown any indication of a willingness to accept the map and the Contact Group proposal." On November 13, five rockets hit the Sarajevo Holiday Inn, the temporary site of the U.S. embassy, slightly wounding one U.N. firefighter, Shelly said. In response to a question, she said the rocket attack "would seem to me to be a violation" of the U.N.-mandated exclusion zone around the Bosnian capital. "It is up to UNPROFOR to decide what kind of response, if any, is appropriate," she added. NNNN
