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To: Scrapps who wrote (10)4/11/2001 12:53:46 PM
From: Elroy  Read Replies (1) of 12
 
From NYTimes China Agrees to Release Spy Plane Crew
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
April 11, 2001

WASHINGTON -- The United States and China have reached an agreement for the release of the American spy plane crew, the White House
announced Wednesday.

The agreement, said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, will "bring an end to the detention of the flight crew ... on Hainan island."

"The U.S. ambassador presented the Chinese government with a letter concerning this incident and has received verbal assurances that the air crew will
be free to leave China shortly," Fleischer said.

He said the two countries are working out details for the release.

The announcement came after U.S. and Chinese diplomats worked out a letter of agreement, the last version of which included a U.S. expression of
regret for the presumed death of a Chinese pilot whose fighter jet collided with the U.S. spy plane April 1 and regrets that the American plane landed
on Chinese soil.

Not sure whether the latest proposal would be accepted by Chinese President Jiang Zemin, President Bush cautioned Tuesday that a solution could
take a while longer. For the first time, Bush used the word stalemate to describe the situation
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