*EPF307 05/01/2002
Text: State Dept. Announces U.S. Assessment Team to Visit China
(Members to examine U.N. Population Fund's China Program) (340)

The Department of State issued a press release May 1 announcing the selection of a team that will visit China the last two weeks of May to help determine whether or not the United Nations Population Fund's China program is in violation of U.S. law and whether the Fund is therefore eligible to receive U.S. Government funding.

The three-member team consists of Ambassador William Brown, Ms. Bonnie Glick, and Dr. Theodore Tong.

Following is the text of the press release:

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman

May 1, 2002

STATEMENT BY RICHARD BOUCHER, SPOKESMAN

Selection of U.S. Assessment Team to Visit China

The Department of State announces the selection of a three-member team that will visit China this month to provide an objective assessment of the activities of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The team will be gathering information to assist the Administration in determining whether or not the United Nations Population Fund's China program is in violation of U.S. law (the Kemp-Kasten Amendment) and whether the Fund is therefore eligible to receive U.S. Government funding as appropriated. The field visit is planned for the last two weeks in May, with completion of the report by late June.

The assessment team members are: Ambassador William Brown, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs and Ambassador to Thailand and Israel, who currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Ms. Bonnie Glick, who served 11 years as a career Foreign Service Officer with overseas postings in Ethiopia and Nicaragua, as well as with the State Department, White House, and the U.S. Mission to the United Nations; and Dr. Theodore Tong, Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs and Professor of Public Health at the University of Arizona.

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(Distributed by the Office of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)

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