We also believe that the French government will adopt effective measures to control the present situation as quickly as possible and guarantee the safety of Chinese, French and people from other countries.

Anyway, I can brief you on China’s position on Sudan.

China’s military imports go through strict surveillance. Chinese enterprises will never purchase any military goods that cannot provide legal documents.

Other leaders should not provide a platform for him to separate the country,

We express strong dissatisfaction and at the same time resolute opposition to (the United States) finding fault with China for no reason at all.

China expresses its concern over the current development of the Iran nuclear issue. China hopes that the talks between Russia and Iran can be held on schedule and achieve positive results.

During the normal course of developing (China-EU) trade relations, there will be benefits to the two sides and also frictions. Last year, we had trade negotiations between the two sides, and successfully resolved some issues....

There are still great differences on certain issues.

The Iranian side mentioned it was ready to maintain cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency and would seek to solve the matter under the framework of the IAEA. Iran said it would like to...

I’m sure that nobody in China would be arrested or detained because of their ideas or any proposals that are not illegal.

The most pressing issue for the six parties at present is to concentrate on resolving the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula.

China will take into consideration the concerns and interests of the countries downstream of the rivers whenever it takes action in the upper stream,

During his three-day working visit to Iran, Lu will discuss with Iran’s foreign ministry officials ways to prevent the nuclear crisis from escalating, given the current developments.

China resolutely supports an Asian secretary-general.

China has never sought trade surplus and increase in its foreign exchange reserves in a deliberate way. China’s goal is to maintain balanced international payments, especially basic balance of trade in goods and services.

This news was fabricated by a certain foreign national,

We ask all the parties to exercise restraint and we hope that they will do nothing that is detrimental to the resumption of the six-party talks.

We attach great importance to recent developments,

We support Russia’s negotiations with Iran on the nuclear issue and hope the talks with yield positive results.

The Dalai Lama is not a simple or a pure religious figure. He is a political exile. We oppose the meeting of him with other leaders.

The fundamental policy of China on the question of Dalai Lama is that we demand that the Dalai Lama must acknowledge that Tibet and Taiwan are part of China and seriously and sincerely abandon his...

China will explore with Iran how to ease the crisis under present circumstances and how to take practical measures to stop the problem from worsening.

China and the United States do have differences on trade and some other issues. We are going to move ahead while expanding mutual trust and improving relations during this visit.

The Chinese government has always considered it important to protect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens from being violated.

China does not have any plan to build this type of special prisons.

The talks are nearing an end and will continue on Monday.

With the development of the Internet, there has been some harmful and illegal content. The Chinese government has adopted some management measures so as to limit the immoral and harmful content, especially for young people.

Chinese public security has never issued such a warning for foreigners on the hotel issue… Chinese hotels are safe.

China has made unswerving efforts to make a summit meeting possible, but regretfully, China fails to see a positive response from Japan.

Recently, there were some developments of the Iranian nuclear issue. We expressed our concern. … We hope the parties should exercise restraint and not take any actions that lead to further escalation so we can...

This meeting will not be a next round of six-party talks but it will be a good opportunity for the delegates to exchange views to discuss how to overcome difficulties and ensure an early resumption...

But although people may call it a Beijing consensus, we are not trying to pose as a model for other countries.

We are carefully studying the draft resolution on Iraq presented by the United States and Britain.

We hope to see some progress, but we didn’t really expect too much … because the process takes time, … The basic problem existing, is still the lack of trust between the United States and...

He will exchange views with President Bush on bilateral ties, plus major regional and international issues of common interest.

Chinese people have a say in this matter.

It requires consultation between all the (member) countries to reach unanimity.

China’s side of the story. We’ll also tell them that we are not manipulating the yuan exchange rate at all. So we hope they will not label China as a currency manipulator.

We believe that it remains to be the internal affairs of countries to explore a development road suitable for their own conditions. We respect their choices.

Despite difficulties ahead, all parties in the talks should show political willingness and flexibility with sincerity,

China has always stood for human rights dialogue with other nations, including the United States, on an equal, two-way footing with mutual respect.

We advocate that religious figures should not interfere with politics.

He will meet with delegation heads of other parties and discuss the issues concerning the six-party talks.

We were shocked by his remarks,

Yes, a lot of African countries have been coming to China,

This is acknowledged by all people of the world, and his denial has only proven he has no courage to face history,

China and the U.S. do disagree on some trade and other issues. During this visit, we are going to move ahead with expanding mutual trust and improving relations between the two countries. The development of...

The Chinese government is resolutely against and will resolutely tackle the illegal immigrants problem, in whatever form.

During his visit, the two sides will exchange opinions on issues including bilateral economic and trade cooperation.

This accusation saying that China is collecting intelligence in the United States is completely groundless.