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Chinese students have staged a series of protests agains the bombing of
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Major cities in China have seen their biggest and angriest demonstrations
for years in response to the destruction by Nato bombs of the Chinese embassy in
Belgrade with the loss of four lives.
Hundreds of students chanting anti-American and anti-Nato slogans marched
in Shanghai, Chengdu, Guanghzou.
In Beijing about 100,000 people invaded the embassy district, massing on
streets littered with rocks and broken bottles from earlier protests.
Buses packed with students headed out of campuses across the city.
Correspondents said the authorities appeared to be deliberately encouraging the
action.
The residence of the US Consul General in the south-western city of Chengdu
was stormed and partially burned.
Nato said its pilots hit the embassy in the early hours of 8 May with
precision-guided bombs by accident - they had mistaken the embassy for a
legitimate military target.
Condemnation
The Chinese press has carried front-page pictures of the victims of the
embassy bombing.
At an emergency session of the UN Security Council, the Chinese ambassador
accused Nato of carrying out a war crime.
The Russian President, Boris Yeltsin, condemned the bombing as a violation
of international law and called for an immediate end to the air strikes on
Serbia.
Serbian state television reported that Yugoslavia's President Slobodan
Milosevic has conveyed his deepest sympathy to China over the deaths.
President Clinton has offered deep regrets to the people of China, but said
the bombing was an accident, not a barbaric act.
He echoed the words of the Nato Secretary-General, Javier Solana, in saying
that the incident would not deter the alliance from continuing its air
campaign.
As Nato countries try to contain the damage from the embassy bombing,
Russia's special Balkans envoy, Viktor Chernomyrdin, said that the conflict
itself must be resolved by political means as quickly as possible.
He was speaking after talks in Bonn with the German Chancellor, Gerhard
Schroeder, about the G8 countries' outline peace plan for Kosovo.
Both the chancellor and Mr Chernomyrdin later held separate talks with the
Kosovo Albanian leader, Ibrahim Rugova.
Konrad Adenauer: "The German people have paid harshly for the horrors
committed in their name"
1955: West Germany accepted into Nato
Artificially 1969:
West Germany has formally joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation at
a special ceremony in Paris.
The German delegates to NATO were greeted by British Foreign Secretary
Harold Macmillan at the Conference Hall of the Palais de Chaillot.
Ministers from 14 member countries made a short speech welcoming West
Germany into the alliance, saying they believed Germany's inclusion would
strengthen peace in Europe.
"A decisive turning point in the history of our continent." Halward Lange,
Norway's Foreign Minister said.
Norway's Foreign Minister, Halward Lange, who spent two years in
Ravensbruck concentration camp, called the entry of Germany into Nato "a
decisive turning point in the history of our continent".
Some ministers also paid tribute to Dr Konrad Adenauer, German Chancellor
since 1946.
In response, Dr Adenauer said in German: "I thank you from the bottom of my
heart for the words of welcome you have addressed to the federal government and
to the German nation.
"All your words reflected the importance of the hour and the event. You
will realise that this moment fills me with deep emotion. The German people have
paid harshly for the horrors which were committed in their name by evil
leadership and have paid these horrors with unlimited suffering.
"Today, everywhere in Germany, peace and freedom are felt to be the
greatest treasures as was true in the best periods of her history."
German flag over Nato HQ
This morning, the red, yellow and black German flag was raised at a
military ceremony at Nato headquarters in Rocquencourt, France.
A British band played the German national anthem - better known as
"Deutschland ueber Alles". A French band had refused to play the music because
of its Nazi connotations.
Professor Hans Spiedel, former general of the Third Reich and ex
chief-of-staff to Field Marshall Erwin Rommel, witnessed the ceremony alongside
United States General Alfred Gruenther and Major General Rene Lehr of
France.
Herr Spiedel was implicated in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler and spent the
end of the war in a German prison.
Formal ceremonies over, the Nato members will now discuss the agenda of a
proposed conference with the Soviet Union on the future of Germany and
disarmament.
Vocabulary:
disarmament: the reduction or abolition of a nation's military forces and
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