DATE=6/27/98 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-234637 TITLE=SUMMIT / MISSILES / S-O BYLINE=ROGER WILKISON DATELINE=BEIJING CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA HAVE AGREED THEY WILL NO LONGER POINT NUCLEAR MISSILES AT EACH OTHER. V-O-A'S ROGER WILKISON REPORTS THE AGREEMENT CAME AT A SUMMIT IN BEIJING MARKED LARGELY BY DISAGREEMENTS OVER SUCH ISSUES AS HUMAN RIGHTS, TRADE AND TIBET. TEXT: THE MISSILE DE-TARGETING ACCORD WAS HAILED BY CHINESE PRESIDENT JIANG ZEMIN -- WHO TOLD REPORTERS AT A POST-SUMMIT NEWS CONFERENCE IT SHOWS CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE PARTNERS AND NOT ADVERSARIES. PRESIDENT CLINTON, TOO, SAID THE ACCORD EXPANDS MUTUAL TRUST BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES. /////CLINTON ACTUALITY///// WE BOTH FELT THAT, NUMBER ONE, IF WE DE-TARGETED, WE WOULD COMPLETELY ELIMINATE THE PROSPECT EVER OF ANY KIND OF ACCIDENTAL LAUNCH AND, NUMBER TWO, WE WOULD TAKE ONE MORE STEP IN SHOWING MUTUAL CONFIDENCE AND TRUST IN ONE ANOTHER. /////END ACTUALITY///// THE AGREEMENT IS MOSTLY SYMBOLIC, BECAUSE THE MISSILES CAN BE RE-TARGETED IN A MATTER OF MINUTES. (SIGNED) NEB / WD / WD 27-Jun-98 2:59 AM EDT (0659 UTC) NNNN Source: Voice of America .