Sunday, December 18, 2005

WTO Hong Kong: Seoul Trying to Bring 600 Detainees Home


The vice foreign minister might want to pick up a couple of bottles at the duty-free shop at Seoul Incheon International Airport. Amiability? Conviviality? Soju, he should bring some soju (see earlier post):
South Korea will dispatch Vice Foreign Minister Lee Kyu-hyung to Hong Kong today in an attempt to amiably settle the issue of freeing some 600 hundred of its citizens arrested in anti-globalization protests there, government officials in Seoul said on Sunday.
"We are working for a smooth settlement of the case," an official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in a press briefing. "We expect close cooperation with the authorities of Hong Kong for an early release of the arrested demonstrators and their return."
Korea Times

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