Start Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2001
Last Modified: Tuesday, May 5, 2020
End Date: Friday, December 31, 9999
QUESTION: Secretary Powell, do you care to comment on the release of Li Shaomin this morning? SECRETARY POWELL: Well, I�m very pleased to hear that, that�s all I have right now. That�s breaking news. QUESTION: Do you have any comments, sir, on the fact that two U.S. residents were sentenced to 10 years in prison? You�re about to have the meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister this afternoon. Do you have any comments on that? SECRETARY POWELL: We�ll talk about that this afternoon. I am pleased that these cases are now being resolved as I said previously. It is not the individual cases that should be raised concern, but the whole process by which people are detained. I�m sure that we will have a chance to discuss that with the Chinese Foreign Minister. I�m looking forward to that, but I�m glad that these matters are now slowly but surely being resolved.
QUESTION: Secretary Powell, do you care to comment on the release of Li Shaomin this morning?
SECRETARY POWELL: Well, I�m very pleased to hear that, that�s all I have right now. That�s breaking news.
QUESTION: Do you have any comments, sir, on the fact that two U.S. residents were sentenced to 10 years in prison? You�re about to have the meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister this afternoon. Do you have any comments on that?
SECRETARY POWELL: We�ll talk about that this afternoon. I am pleased that these cases are now being resolved as I said previously. It is not the individual cases that should be raised concern, but the whole process by which people are detained. I�m sure that we will have a chance to discuss that with the Chinese Foreign Minister. I�m looking forward to that, but I�m glad that these matters are now slowly but surely being resolved.
Colin Powell
Comments to the Press
Remarks following Bilateral Meeting with Philippine Vice President Guingona
07/25/01