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中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A393-O120
Release
Date: July 29, 2008
发布日：2008年7月29日
Topic:
US President George W. Bush Meets with Chinese Freedom Activists in White House
Today
标题：美国总统布什今天在白宫会见争取自由的中国活跃人士
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US
President George W. Bush Meets with Chinese Freedom Activists in White House
Today
On
July 29, 2008, at 11:30am, President George W. Bush formally met with Chinese
Freedom Activists at the White House Residence. These people were: Mr. WEI Jingsheng, Mr. Harry WU, Ms.
Rabiya Kadeer, Mr. Bob FU, Ms. Sasha GONG, and Mr. Wei's assistant Ms. Ciping
HUANG, and Ms. Kadeer's assistant Alim Seytoff.
This
meeting was in response to a request from Congressman Franck Wolf, Congressman
Chris Smith and Congressman James McGovern. According to the White House, President Bush also dropped by
a meeting that his National Security Advisor had this morning with Chinese
Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, and reviewed current bilateral relations with the
Foreign Minister.
As
President Bush entering the meeting room, he enthusiastically shook hands with
everyone and also told Mr. Wei: "We have met." As everyone sat down, President Bush
voiced concern to Ms. Kadeer about her family. Ms. Kadeer told him about her children inside China who were
persecuted. Mr. Wu talked about
the work of the LaoGai Foundation.
Mr.
Wei told President Bush that he thinks "the President's attendance at the
Beijing Olympics is a mistake: that regardless how you explain it, the Chinese
government would say that it supports the Communist dictatorial
government. It would cause a big
misunderstanding by the Chinese people and damage the image of Americans in the
minds of the Chinese. If you have
already decided to go, I suggest you use all the opportunities to release
correct massages, to pay attention to the human rights of persecuted political
prisoners, religious believers and ethnical minorities, and to be concerned
about the freedom and democracy of the Chinese people."
The
President responded: "I know that you are against me going to
Beijing. But this is a dilemma for
me. To cut off the relationship
may not be a good thing. Not to
talk about human rights is not a good thing either. So I decided to go, to talk about human rights, and I will
talk about this issue with Mr. Hu Jintao face to face."
Mr.
Wu and Ms. Huang and others gave lists of people who were persecuted to the
President. Mr. Bush also looked at
the foreword by Mr. Wei Jingsheng for the 2007 annual report by the Observatory
for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders in Europe and its China section
and commented about it as "interesting, I'll look at it."
Ms.
Ciping Huang also told President Bush that the Chinese government had lied to
the whole international society about the dialogs with Tibet. She gave the President a document in
which the responsible person of the Chinese Communist Party's United Front
Department (note: this is the department that took in charge of the
"dialog with Tibet" at the beginning of this month; it is really an
organ of the Chinese Communist Party) answered the XinHua News Agency on the
issue of Tibet and claimed that the Chinese Communist Party "would not
make any dialog with the 'illegal organization' of Tibet".
Mr.
Fu then talked about the persecution of the underground Christians in
China. Mr. Bush said that he
wanted to visit an underground church before, but the Chinese party said that
they could not find the underground ones, only the above ground ones, which
resulted in laughter. Ms. Gong
talked about her international human rights activities. Mr. Wu emphasized again the human
rights abuse in the LaoGai camps.
Near
the end of the meeting, Mr. Wei Jingsheng suggested again that when President
Bush goes to Beijing to talk about human rights, he should not just to talk to
Hu Jintao, but also to talk to the news media: to let all the Chinese people to
know his believe of human rights and democracy so as to avoid
misunderstanding. The President
said that he is very grateful for the suggestion and that he already has a
series of plans. As various people
get together and various media accompany them, he will use all the
opportunities to talk about political prisoners, religious freedom, etc. He asked Mr. Wei and everyone not to
worry about it.
After
the meeting, Mr. Bush and everyone came to the front door of the White
House. He shook hands hard with
Mr. Wei twice, and took Mr. Wei for a group picture together. As he was departing, he embraced with
both Ms. Kadeer and Mr. Wu enthusiastically.
The
following link is the statement from the White House's Press Secretary:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/07/20080729-4.html
And
the group photo is available at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/07/images/20080729-4_d-0396-2-515h.html
or
http://www.weijingsheng.org/pic/newsletters/newsletters2008/newsletters2008-7/PresidentBushGmeetsChinese080729inWhiteHouse.jpg
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Overseas
Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue Number: A393-O120
中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A393-O120
Release
Date: July 29, 2008
发布日：2008年7月29日
Topic:
US President George W. Bush Meets with Chinese Freedom Activists in White House
Today
标题：美国总统布什今天在白宫会见争取自由的中国活跃人士
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美国总统布什今天在白宫会见争取自由的中国活跃人士
2008年7月29日
上午十一点半，布什总统在他白宫住处的会客厅，正式会见了魏京生、吴宏达、热比亚﹒卡德尔、傅希秋和龚小夏，以及魏京生的助手黄慈萍女士和卡德尔女士的助手阿莱姆先生。会见是应美国国会众议员弗兰克﹒沃尔夫、克里斯﹒史密斯和詹姆斯﹒麦克高文的要求安排的。据白宫消息，在会见前，布什总统还顺便在中国外长杨洁篪和白宫国家安全顾问会谈时作了短暂的逗留，并谈到了中美两国的关系。
布什先生一进入会客厅，就热情地和大家握手，并和魏先生说：我们见过面。在大家落座的时候，布什先生关切地询问了热比亚女士亲属的情况。热比亚女士谈到了他在国内被迫害的子女的情况。随后吴宏达先生谈到了劳改基金会的工作。
魏京生先生对布什总统说：我认为总统先生出席北京奥运会是个错误。无论你们怎样解释这件事，中国政府都会把它解释成是对共产党专制政权的支持。这会给中国人民造成很大的误解，破坏美国在中国人心目中的形象。如果总统先生已经决定要去，我建议总统先生利用各种机会发出明确的信息，关注被迫害的政治犯，宗教信徒和少数民族等等的人权，关注中国人民的民主和自由。
总统先生回答说：我知道您反对我去北京。但这对我来说是一个两难的问题；切断联系不一定是好事；不谈人权也不是好事。所以我决定去谈人权，而且要当面和胡锦涛先生谈这个问题。吴宏达先生和黄慈萍女士等分别交给布什先生一些受迫害人员的名单。布什先生看见魏先生给总部在法国的国际人权协会的报告所写的序言及有关中国的部分说这个很有意思，我会看看。黄慈萍还向布什总统指出，中国政府就西藏问题的谈判欺骗了国际社会，并将中共的统战部负责人回答新华社记者时说中共绝不会和“西藏的非法组织商谈”的相关文件交给了布什总统。
接下来傅希秋先生谈到了国内地下教会受迫害的情况。布什先生说我过去就想拜访地下教会，可是中国的接待人员说他们找不到地下的教会，只能找到地上的。引起大家一片笑声。龚小夏女士谈到了她从事的国际人权活动。吴宏达先生再一次强调了劳改队中迫害人权的情况。
会见接近结束时。魏先生再次建议：布什总统去北京谈到人权民主的时候，不能只对胡锦涛谈，而应该对尽可能多的媒体谈。要让广大的中国人民都知道，以免造成他们的误解。总统先生说他非常感谢魏先生的建议，并说他已经有一系列的计划，会利用各种人民聚集和媒体聚集的机会，谈政治犯问题、宗教问题等等。他请魏先生和大家放心。
会见结束后布什先生和大家一起来到白宫的正门外摄影留念。他两次十分用力的和魏先生握手，并拉住魏先生合影。分手时还热情的和热比亚女士、吴宏达先生拥抱。
以下是白宫发布的新闻稿的网页连接:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/07/20080729-4.html
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/07/images/20080729-4_d-0396-2-515h.html
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