Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Jianchao said in Beijing on
Sunday that the Chinese side is shocked over the case that a
Chinese diplomat and a Chinese citizen in Kyrgyzstan were killed on
June 29.
"The Chinese side strongly condemns such an evil act," Liu
said.
"We have asked the Kyrgyzstani side to uncover the case as soon as
possible and seize and severely punish the murderer," the spokesman
said.
Liu said the Kyrgyzstani side has expressed deep regret for the sad
incident and vowed to spare no efforts to look into the case, crack
the case as soon as possible and punish the murderer according to
law.
(Xinhua News
Agency July 1, 2002)