-Caveat Lector- >From http://www.newsworld.cbc.ca/news/cp/world/991023/w102330.html {{<Begin>}} France and China ignore protests to do deals worth billions French President Jacques Chirac welcomed Chinese President Jiang Zemin Saturday. (AP) BRIVE-LA-GAILLARDE, France (AP) - Chinese President Jiang Zemin and French President Jacques Chirac shared lunch Saturday, made a multibillion-dollar deal, then retired to the French leader's country residence out of earshot of dissidents and human-rights protesters. A day after Jiang's arrival on a five-day state visit, Chirac announced China's decision to order 28 Airbus planes, a deal apparently concluded over lunch in the south-central city Lyon. "It's good for Europe. It's good for France. It's good for employment," Chirac said of the order for eight A340 wide-body aircraft and 20 A318s and A319s. He valued the deal at the equivalent of $3.7 billion Cdn. Jiang, on a two-week foreign tour that began in Britain, later climbed aboard the TGV, a high-speed train that France would like China to buy. But no commitment was made. The men then flew to the Limoges region of central France to spend the night at the Chateau Bity before heading to Paris Saturday. Jiang is the first head of state ever invited to Chirac's country estate and the invitation drew fierce protests from Chinese dissidents and some French politicians. In Brive, just south of Chateau Bity, about 75 protesters, including Tibetan monks and members of Amnesty International, demonstrated outside the town's white-stone cathedral. "Has Mr. Chirac forgotten what happened 10 years ago in China?" said Wangyal, 52, a Tibetan monk living in France, referring to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest movement, which was crushed by the Chinese military. "That's what happens every day in Tibet." However, it was the overnight invitation at the Chirac's that drew the most criticism. "Jacques Chirac is losing face," said Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, who was imprisoned for 18 years. "You can offer a client something to eat but you don't invite him into your bed." On his arrival Friday, Jiang spoke of efforts to work toward greater democracy in China. "The Chinese people of different ethnic origins, uniting like a single man, are working assiduously to make China, in 50 years, a modern socialist nation, prosperous, highly democratic and civilized," Jiang said. Chirac contends dialogue is the best way to advance democracy. During the visit, French leaders and Jiang are expected to discuss China's bid to enter the World Trade Organization, human rights and issues such as disarmament and the role of NATO, a presidential spokesmen said. © The Canadian Press, 1999 {{<End>}} >From http://www.newsworld.cbc.ca/news/cp/world/991023/w102328.html {{<Begin>}} Albright angry with Calgary company for investing in Sudan U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright visits Kenya. (AP) NAIROBI (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, on a visit to Kenya, expressed anger Saturday over Canadian investment in neighbouring Sudan, whose government Washington officially condemns. Asked about the participation of Canadian interests in an oil consortium in Sudan, she said: "I am definitely going to talk to the Canadians about this." She said some countries have the mistaken view foreign investment in countries under what she termed dictatorial rule will help ordinary people, adding revenues instead often wind up in the pockets of the rulers. Talisman Energy Inc., based in Calgary, has invested $400 million in a 1,600- kilometre pipeline that is expected to permit exploitation of untapped oil reserves. The pipeline was completed several months ago. Sudan is the scene of a conflict that has claimed the lives of an estimated 1.9 million people over the last 16 years, mostly southerners who perished in a war- induced famine. On the final leg of a six-country African tour, Albright met with John Garang, head of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army, as well as leaders of a regional group trying to arrange a peace settlement and exiled Sudanese civil leaders. Before arriving in Kenya, Albright visited Guinea, Sierra Leone, Mali and Nigeria. She also went to Tanzania, where she attended the funeral of Julius Nyerere, a former Tanzanian president and one of the continent's most beloved statesman. At the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, before departing for Washington, Albright said her encounter with Sudanese civic leaders was distressing. She said they told her Sudanese aircraft routinely bomb churches in the south because they are easily visible from high elevations. "They are worried that whole generations of Sudanese will have no homes," Albright said. She promised an increase in U.S. aid to these civil society groups to $3 million a year, up from the current $2 million. The United States also has provided food assistance averaging about $100 million a year to starving people in Sudan over the last decade. In addition to the bombings in the south, Albright said the radical Islamic government of Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir has used food-deprivation and ethnic-cleansing as tactics against the south. It also has tried to impose Islamic law on southerners, who are predominantly Christian or animist. She described Garang, the Sudanese rebel leader, as a "sophisticated, dedicated and determined" man who has had a difficult time gaining support because he lacks international recognition. Albright expressed frustration that the United States does not have more influence over the situation. "The problem is how to exert leverage over countries that you don't deal with," she said. The United States lists Sudan as one of seven countries that are state sponsors of terrorist activities. An almost total U.S. trade embargo was imposed on Sudan two years ago. The United States also bombed a pharmaceutical plant in the capital Khartoum last year because of its alleged links with Osama bin Laden. 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