Officials at NATO embassy strike site

Serbia FM Vuk Jeremić and his <a href="http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=05&dd=04&nav_id=74135" class="text-link" target= "_blank">visiting Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi</a> laid wreaths on Wednesday at the site of the former Chinese embassy in New Belgrade.

Izvor: Tanjug

Wednesday, 04.05.2011.

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Serbia FM Vuk Jeremic and his visiting Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi laid wreaths on Wednesday at the site of the former Chinese embassy in New Belgrade. The building was destroyed in a NATO airtrike on May 7, 1999. Officials at NATO embassy strike site Officials of Serbia and China paid their respects to the victims, in memory of the day 12 years ago when the diplomatic office of the world's most populous country in the capital of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia came under attack. The NATO attack killed two reporters of the Guang Ming Daily, Xu Xinghu and Zhu Ying, and Xinhua agency correspondent Shao Yunhuan, while 20 more people were seriously injured. The day following the attack, then Yugoslav government said that "the diplomatic building of the People's Republic of China was visibly marked and isolated from the nearest surrounding buildings," assessing that this "pointed to clear intention on part of the aggressor." China has refused to accept NATO's explanation that its embassy was bombed by mistake. In 2009, Belgrade Mayor Dragan Djilas and Chinese Ambassador to Serbia Wei Xinghua unveiled a memorial plaque at the site of the former embassy, a symbol of the friendship between the two nations. Vuk Jeremic and Yang Jiechi at the former embassy site (Tanjug)

Officials at NATO embassy strike site

Officials of Serbia and China paid their respects to the victims, in memory of the day 12 years ago when the diplomatic office of the world's most populous country in the capital of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia came under attack.

The NATO attack killed two reporters of the Guang Ming Daily, Xu Xinghu and Zhu Ying, and Xinhua agency correspondent Shao Yunhuan, while 20 more people were seriously injured.

The day following the attack, then Yugoslav government said that "the diplomatic building of the People's Republic of China was visibly marked and isolated from the nearest surrounding buildings," assessing that this "pointed to clear intention on part of the aggressor."

China has refused to accept NATO's explanation that its embassy was bombed by mistake.

In 2009, Belgrade Mayor Dragan Đilas and Chinese Ambassador to Serbia Wei Xinghua unveiled a memorial plaque at the site of the former embassy, a symbol of the friendship between the two nations.

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