ACCESSION NUMBER:323868 FILE ID:POL301 DATE:01/26/94 TITLE:STATE DEPARTMENT REPORT, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26 (01/26/94) TEXT:*94012601.POL STATE DEPARTMENT REPORT, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26 (South Korea, North Korea, China, Haiti) (440) NEWS BRIEFING -- Spokesman Michael McCurry discussed the following topics: NO DECISION ON PATRIOT SYSTEM DEPLOYMENT IN SOUTH KOREA McCurry said the administration is looking favorably at a request by General Gary Luck, the U.S. commander in South Korea, to deploy Patriot anti-missile defense systems there, but it has made no decision on the issue. The spokesman emphasized that the Patriots are "defensive" systems. President Clinton asked Luck to review the situation "to ensure that everything necessary was being done for the security of South Korea" and the defense of forces there, the spokesman said. "As part of that review, the U.S. theater commander requested" a deployment of Patriot anti-missile defense systems, he said. IAEA-NORTH KOREAN TALKS CONTINUE McCurry said talks are continuing between North Korea and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on guidelines for inspections of North Korea's seven declared nuclear facilities. He noted that the inspections requested by the IAEA "are not unlike those 1hey request for other countries -- not dissimilar at all from those that are necessary to assure the continuity of safeguards." McCurry reiterated that the United States has not set a deadline for North Korea to reach agreement with the IAEA on inspections. U.S., CHINA DISCUSS NON-PROLIFERATION ISSUES McCurry said the United States hopes that U.S.-Chinese talks on proliferation issues will be "productive" and "useful." In a meeting at the State Department January 26, Lynn Davis, under secretary of state for international security affairs, and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Huaqiu discussed a "range of proliferation issues," the spokesman said. "We welcome the opportunity to meet with the Chinese to explore some of our concerns arising from the sanctions that we imposed under U.S. law relating to violations or perceived violations of the Missile Technology Control Regime" regarding the transfer of missile technology to Pakistan, the spokesman said. HAITI SANCTIONS SHOULD PENALIZE THOSE THWARTING DEMOCRACY McCurry said the United States seeks added sanctions against Haiti that would focus "as directly as possible on those responsible for the impediments in implementing the Governors Island process." "What we are anxious to do is find the best way to focus those sanctions tightly and effectively on those who are most responsible for the current impasse in bringing about the restoration of democracy and the return of President Aristide," he emphasized. The Four Friends of Haiti -- the United States, France, Canada and Venezuela -- are discussing what additional sanctions should be proposed to the United Nations. NNNN .
