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Negotiation to continue
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CHINA and the United States have agreed to keep in contact on the collision incident in which a US reconnaissance plane rammed into and destroyed a Chinese jet fighter on April 1, and will decide on the time for the next round of negotiations through diplomatic channels.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue made the statement at a routine press conference in Beijing yesterday, after a two-day negotiation between the two sides, which she described as “frank and conducive to the mutual understanding of each other's stand".
During the negotiations, the two sides elaborated their respective stances on the issue. Lu Shumin, head of the Chinese delegation and director of the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs of the Foreign Ministry, reiterated China's principled stand on the incident, noting that the Chinese side has had enough evidence to prove that it is the US side that should hold the full responsibility for the incident and the so-called evidence and remarks made public by the US side over the past few days are sheer groundless.
The US side should bear the full responsibility for the incident, make clear and responsible explanations to the Chinese people, stop reconnaissance flights in the space adjacent to Chinese coastal areas and take effective measures to prevent the recurrence of such incident, Lu stressed.(SD-Xinhua)
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