During his talks with Chernomyrdin, Qian said that Chinese President Jiang Zemin and Russian President Boris Yeltsin consulted each other on the Kosovo crisis on Monday during an "important telephone conversation".
The telephone conversation between (Jiang) Zemin and Yeltsin showed "mutual trust, mutual understanding and mutual support" by the two countries in the Yugoslav crisis, the Chinese newswire XINHUA reported overnight.
Chernomyrdin called the telephone conversation between Yeltsin and Jiang "very important".
According to the reports, Yeltsin said the attack of the U.S.-led NATO on Chinese Embassy in Belgrade is a barbaric act, and he expressed his profound condolences to the families of Chinese journalists killed in the attack.
According to Chernomyrdin, who arrived in China on Monday evening for talks with the Chinese leaders on the situation around Yugoslavia, the Embassy bombing confirmed that the policy from the positions of strength pursued by the western countries and NATO only "complicates the negotiating process" and has led to a "deadlock". (End)
Within one hour of Chernomyrdin's landing in Beijing, Clinton made a statement about the Chinese embassy bombing that included the word "apologize", up from "regret" in a previous statement. In the same statement, Clinton express his determineation to continue to improve US-Chinas relations. Chinese Foreign Ministry described Clinton's hope that the embassy boombing would not affect relations "naive".
Italy and Germany also call for investigation of the "mistake" that led to the embassy booming.
Henry C.K. Liu