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UN Inspectors' Assessment Should be Respected: China

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China holds that the United Nations Security Council should respect the inspectors' assessment on Iraqi weapon issue and no hasty conclusion should be drawn, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said Tuesday.

Zhang made the remarks at a regular press conference. While expressing the view that the Security Council should continue to support the inspectors' work, she urged Iraq to further enhance cooperation with the United Nations.

UN chief arms inspector Hans Blix and International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Mohamed Elbaradei on Monday submitted key reports to the Security Council on their two-month inspections in Iraq, which gave a better-than-expected assessment of Iraq's cooperation, but called for more efforts on the Iraqi side to resolve remaining unanswered questions.

China Works for Early Mideast Peace

China is working hard for the resumption of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority to resolve their dispute, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue said Tuesday.

Although Ambassador Wang Shijie, China's special envoy on the Middle East issue, was now in Beijing, he kept frequent contact with all sides and continued to seek an early resolution, she said.

China felt concerned and worried about the increasing tension between the two sides and believed that "violence for violence" would not contribute to resolving the issue.

China called for all sides to take concrete measures to stop violence and resume negotiations, for the sake of regional stability and the security of life and property, she said.

Zhang said negotiation was the only right way to solve the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians and to realize peace in Middle East.

China to handle kidnapping of Japanese woman seriously

China will seriously deal with the kidnapping of Japanese woman Hirasima Fudeko on Chinese territory,the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.

"It was an extremely serious kidnapping case and was different from a commonplace illegal immigration, for the kidnappers tended to blackmail the government of a third country," Zhang said.

The kidnapping had severely violated Chinese law and disturbed social order, and the Chinese side would dealt with the case strictly according to law, she said.

Zhang said China had confirmed Fudeko's identity and the case was still under investigation.

It was reported that Fudeko was kidnapped after her illegal entry into China from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea not long ago. China's public security departments have seized two kidnappers holding passports of the Republic of Korea.

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