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To: Rational who wrote (1129)	5/30/1998 12:32:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

Clinton uses the 'Chinese hotline' for the first time! Condition:Yellow Alert. Friday May 29 4:54 PM EDT U.S. issues strong protests to India, Pakistan By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States, in strongly worded protests delivered by U.S. embassies, urged India and Pakistan Friday to avoid a further escalation of tension after their tit-for-tat nuclear test blasts. "The United States government urgently calls on both governments to prevent a further deterioration of the situation and a further escalation," said White House spokesman Mike McCurry, describing the protests delivered to the governments in New Delhi and Islamabad. The two countries were also told they faced "significant negative consequences" in their relations with the United States as a result of the underground tests, McCurry said. The United States has imposed sanctions on both countries that jeopardize billions of dollars in loans from multilateral lending institutions. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, said in New York the Security Council reached agreement Friday on a statement deploring Pakistan's nuclear tests and urging India and Pakistan not to conduct any further tests. The council was due to hold a brief formal meeting later to issue the statement. Most council members had hoped to issue the statement Thursday night but more time was needed for the Chinese delegation to receive instructions from Beijing. Speaking after further consultations among council members Friday morning, Richardson said the statement was important because "it is the major powers of the United Nations Security Council speaking united, unmistakably, with a strong message that what is happening in South Asia is unacceptable." "It is a threat to peace and security, and that it is critically important that tempers and tensions be reduced," he added. The council statement also presses Pakistan and India to sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The world was waiting to see whether Pakistan would detonate more nuclear tests after announcing it had exploded five underground nuclear weapons Thursday in retaliation for five Indian tests May 11 and 13. McCurry said the diplomatic protest "tells both countries that further testing and further efforts to weaponize military capabilities would worsen rather than improve the situation." Asked if U.S. intelligence had uncovered signs that Pakistan was indeed planning more tests, McCurry would only say that "dangers remain." The spokesman announced that President Clinton had spoken by phone Monday to Chinese President Jiang Zemin to discuss ways of lowering tensions on the Indian subcontinent. It was the first use of a U.S.-Chinese communications "hotline."