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That's where they battled out differences over human rights and access to China's closed markets...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eEnglish/Nat\u003cbr/\u003eEuropean Commission President Romano Prodi and Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen of Finland are in Beijing for China-EU summit talks. \u003cbr/\u003eThat's where they battled out differences over human rights and access to China's closed markets at a summit meeting designed to improve ties with the west.\u003cbr/\u003eThis comes after China struck separate deals last month with the United States and Canada on joining the World Trade Organisation,  leaving the EU as Beijing's biggest obstacle to an improvement in free trade for the country.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter greeting European Commission President Romano Prodi and Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen of Finland,  Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji opened the latest round of EU talks by noting previous EU criticism of China's human rights record.\u003cbr/\u003eBut he gave positive signs suggesting that both sides \"seek common ground.\"\u003cbr/\u003eZhu warmly greeted delegation leaders European Commission President Romano Prodi and Finnish Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen, saying \"welcome\" and \"old friend\" in English.\u003cbr/\u003eBut Zhu gave only a perfunctory handshake to the delegation's No. 3, Foreign Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten.\u003cbr/\u003eAs Hong Kong's last colonial governor, Patten earned the enmity of China's communist leaders by promoting democracy in the colony before Britain handed it back to China in mid-1997.\u003cbr/\u003eIn a book on his experiences, Patten urged governments not to sacrifice human rights for the marginal benefits of trade with China.\u003cbr/\u003eDuring the summit meeting, the four member European Commission delegation presented Chinese leaders with their conditions for reaching a WTO deal with China.\u003cbr/\u003eChina struck separate deals last month with the United States and Canada, leaving the EU as Beijing's biggest obstacle to joining the WTO.\u003cbr/\u003eBut China and the 15-nation EU have been slow to resume negotiations on a market-access agreement necessary for Chinese entry to organisation.\u003cbr/\u003eThe EU's conditions for striking a deal with China are not very different from those of the US which China has already met.\u003cbr/\u003eBut 20 percent of the requests are specific to Europe.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I insist that these requests are not difficult to meet in the sense that they are very similar to what the Americans got. And it's very natural that when you have a multilateral deal, you must keep note of the needs of all the negotiators, all the parties interested in entering into the deal. And the European Union will become, is even now, a protagonist of world trade, in the world economy. But it will be more and more, in the future, THE protagonist of the world trade.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission\u003cbr/\u003eThe other major item on the summit's agenda was the human rights situation in China.\u003cbr/\u003eThe delegation brought up concerns about Tibet, a dialogue with the Dalai Lama and the recent crackdowns on democracy activists and Falun Gong movement.\u003cbr/\u003eEuropean leaders welcomed what they perceived as an open attitude on the part of China's Prime Minister Zhu Rongji.\u003cbr/\u003eBut they urged China to ratify the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights signed by China last year.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I don't think that anyone will be throwing their hats in the air or dancing in the streets until China ratifies the international covenants which we hope will come sooner rather than later. Not least because once the covenants are ratified, there is then the mechanism which , for example,allows experts from Geneva to visit those countries which have ratified the covenants to consider compliance with them.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Christopher Patten, Commissioner for External Relations, European Commission\u003cbr/\u003eAlthough most European countries agree that engagement is the correct policy for China, concerns for human rights has not diminished.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"But I look forward to the day when we can talk about the WTO and economic cooperation and other matters and human rights doesn't have to appear.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Christopher Patten, Commissioner for External Relations, European Commission\u003cbr/\u003eThe European Commission delegation ended it's one day summit in a meeting with Chinese President Jiang Zemin.\u003cbr/\u003eThe western delegates will leave Beijing this evening.\u003cbr/\u003e Beijing, China, 21 December, 1999 \u003cbr/\u003e1. European Commission President Romano Prodi and Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen of Finland walk into the Great Hall of the People and greet Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji\u003cbr/\u003e2. Handshakes between various delegates and Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji\u003cbr/\u003e3. Closeup of Chris Patten, Former Governor of Hong Kong\u003cbr/\u003e4. Midshot of the various delegates at the conference\u003cbr/\u003e5. Pan across the table with seated delegates\u003cbr/\u003e6. Exterior shot of the Prime Minister's residence\u003cbr/\u003e7. Closeup of handshake between Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen of Finland and Premier Zhu\u003cbr/\u003e8. Closeup shots of Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji\u003cbr/\u003e9. Cutaway of journalists at the conference\u003cbr/\u003e10. Closeup of Premier Zhu and Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen of Finland\u003cbr/\u003e11. Pan across delegates at meeting\u003cbr/\u003e12. Cutaway of camera crews\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English) European Commission President Romano Prodi \u003cbr/\u003e14. Cutaway of journalists, audience at briefing\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Chris Patten, Commissioner for External Relations, European Commission\u003cbr/\u003e16. Cutaway of audience\u003cbr/\u003e17. Pan across audience attending conference\u003cbr/\u003e18. Ministers' cars arriving to visit Chinese President Jiang Zemin\u003cbr/\u003e19. Handshakes between Lipponen, Prodi, Patten and Chinese President Jiang Zemin\u003cbr/\u003e20. Closeup of Lipponen and Chinese President Jiang Zemin talking\u003cbr/\u003e21. Pan across delegates\u003cbr/\u003e22. Closeup of Chris Patten, No. 3, Foreign Affairs Commissioner \u003cbr/\u003e23. 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