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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (938)	5/27/1998 7:13:00 PM
From: Rational	Respond to of 12475

Dawn (5/27/98) Nuclear test: Clinton may ask China to restrain Pakistan By Shaheen Sehbai WASHINGTON, May 26: US President Bill Clinton will be pressing Chinese leaders next month not to provide the remaining "last bits" of nuclear technology or assistance to Pakistan to enable Islamabad to detonate its own device. "The (US) president would certainly be discussing the Indian nuclear tests and the Pakistani reaction with Chinese leaders and the Secretary of State has already had some discussions with the Chinese foreign minister," a State Department official told Dawn on Tuesday. Experts say until the president's visit to China at the end of June, the US would try to engage Pakistan in all kinds of offers and carrots to keep them from setting off their device. One such "comprehensive package" was hinted at by Defence Secretary William Cohen on Sunday and other officials have been talking in bits and pieces about what they could offer Pakistan, but an integrated policy has not yet taken shape. Asked how he viewed reports that Pakistan actually did not have the capacity to set off the nuclear device until China provided the "last crucial bit of assistance", the State Department official said journalists seemed to be wrapped up in technical details of the issue. "What we have said for some time is that Pakistan has the capability to detonate nuclear device or devices in a short time and we stick to that statement," he said. But that does not mean that we should not put pressure on the Indians, he added. Officials admitted that it was a very complicated and entangled issue and it would take some time for the US to draw up a clear policy on the subject. "We are working on all these issues and it is a complex matter," the official said. The media here is attaching unusual and unnecessary importance to the forthcoming visit of a Pakistani parliamentary delegation headed by senator Akram Zaki and several times the state department spokesman has mentioned the upcoming visit. When asked on Tuesday why was the state department attaching so much importance to that visit, an official said it was not them but the media because the department was only responding to media questions. American officials know and realize how effective and important their own congressional committees are but they also know the standing of these committees in Pakistan, where they have yet to establish their effectiveness and authority.