PARIS —President Hu Jintao of China cut short a trip to Italy on Wednesday to fly home after
the deadly ethnic clashes in the northwestern Xinjiang region, abandoning plans to attend the
Group of Eight summit meeting.
At the meeting, Mr. Hu had planned talks with President Obama on issues including climate
change. Mr. Obama was arriving in Italy on Wednesday from Moscow.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on its Web site that Mr. Hu was returning “given the current
situation in Xinjiang,” where state media say at least 156 people have died in China’s worst ethnic
clashes in decades between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese.
News reports from Urumqi, the regional capital, said the city seemed quieter Wednesday.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/world/asia/09hu.html
the deadly ethnic clashes in the northwestern Xinjiang region, abandoning plans to attend the
Group of Eight summit meeting.
At the meeting, Mr. Hu had planned talks with President Obama on issues including climate
change. Mr. Obama was arriving in Italy on Wednesday from Moscow.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on its Web site that Mr. Hu was returning “given the current
situation in Xinjiang,” where state media say at least 156 people have died in China’s worst ethnic
clashes in decades between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese.
News reports from Urumqi, the regional capital, said the city seemed quieter Wednesday.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/world/asia/09hu.html
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