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handle is hein.crs/crsahiy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code RS20547 Updated April 12, 2000 Chinese Embassy Bombing in Belgrade: Compensation Issues Kerry Dumbaugh Specialist in Asian Affairs Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division Summary U.S. and Chinese officials have reached agreement on compensation payments arising out of the May 7, 1999 NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. In the first of these agreements, on August 25, 1999, the United States made a voluntary humanitarian paymentof $4.5 million to the families of the 3 killed and to the 27 injured as a result of the bombing. On December 16, 1999, U.S. and Chinese officials announced they had agreed that the United States would seek funding for $28 million in compensation for damage to the Chinese Embassy facility, and that China would pay $2.87 million in compensation for damage inflicted by rioting crowds to the U.S. Embassy and other diplomatic facilities in China. The $28 million payment is included in the FY2001 Foreign Operations Appropriation budget request, and will have to be voted on by Congress. Background For months prior to the accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Chinese officials and Chinese press accounts had been uniformly critical of NATO's and U.S. military involvement in Kosovo. On March 26, 1999, China joined Russia and Namibia in voting in favor of the U.N. Security Council resolution calling for an immediate halt to NATO air strikes in Yugoslavia. (The draft resolution failed on a vote of 3-12.) The basic points of China's position were: that NATO airstrikes were an interference in Yugoslavia's internal affairs; that unilateral NATO action was operating without U.N. authorization, and thus violated the U.N. charter and set a bad international precedent; and that the Kosovo issue should be settled through peaceful negotiations conducted under U.N. auspices. In Chinese press accounts, Beijing equated Kosovo's independence aspirations with similar aspirations (called splittism) in Tibet and Xinjiang - both autonomous regions of China- and in Taiwan, which Beijing considers a breakaway province. Indeed, some Chinese press accounts described Kosovo as a breakaway province of Yugoslavia involving splittist elements - thus explicitly drawing a link between Kosovo and Congressional Research Service + The Library of Congress CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web

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