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Victoria Nuland
Spokesperson
Daily Press Briefing
Washington, DC
February 8, 2012
Index for Today's Briefing
DEPARTMENT
•Conference Call on Right-Sizing Mission in Iraq
•Sen. Graham to Brief Secretary Clinton on Africa Trip
CHINA
•Vice Mayor Wang Lijun Meeting at Chengdu Consulate
TRANSCRIPT:
12:56 p.m. EST
QUESTION: I’ve got one on another subject --
MS. NULAND: Please, yes.
QUESTION: -- specifically these reports coming out of China that a deputy
mayor of Chongqing had sought refuge at the consulate in Chengdu and that
there had been an unexpected increase in security personnel around the
consulate for a while. What can you tell us about any of this?
MS. NULAND: Well, I think you’re referring to reports about the vice mayor
of Chongqing – right – City. So his name is Wang Lijun. Wang Lijun did
request a meeting at the U.S. Consulate General in Chengdu earlier this week
in his capacity as vice mayor. The meeting was scheduled, our folks met
with him, he did visit the consulate and he later left the consulate of his
own volition. So – and obviously, we don’t talk about issues having to do
with refugee status, asylum, et cetera.
QUESTION: Okay. But – so can you tell us exactly when that meeting took
place?
MS. NULAND: I believe – we’re here on Wednesday – I believe it was Monday
, but if that is not right, we will get back to you.
QUESTION: Do you have any information about what – have you had any
subsequent contact with him? Because there’s some questions about his
whereabouts.
MS. NULAND: Yeah. To my knowledge, we have not.
QUESTION: And aside from any possible thing that you couldn’t talk about on
asylum can you tell us what he did talk about there? What was the purpose
of this meeting?
MS. NULAND: Frankly, I don’t have anything at the moment on the substance
of the meeting.
QUESTION: Can you say why you said he used – why you used the term, “he
left the consulate of his – on his own volition”?
MS. NULAND: Well again, there has been some reporting to indicate that that
might not have been the case, but it was the case.
QUESTION: Okay. The reporting being that he had been forced to leave or that
had been dragged out, or --
MS. NULAND: There’s been unusual reporting about all of this. So just to
reaffirm for you, that he walked out, it was his choice.
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