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June 28, 1962	Cable from Foreign Ministry to Xinjiang Foreign Affairs Office Chervonenko denies Soviet responsibility for illegal border crossings, and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs responds by referring to a previous memorandum.
June 25, 1962	Reply to the Soviet Government Memorandum of 7 June and the Oral Supplementary Statement of 11 June (Draft) The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs the Soviet government that its accusations against China of illegal migration are groundless.
June 26, 1962	Transcript of a Meeting between Vice Minister Ji Pengfei and the Ambassador of the Soviet Union to China Stepan V. Chervonenko Ji Pengfei and Stepan Chervonenko spar over the Soviet Union's handling of the peoples who crossed into the USSR from Xinjiang.
June 8, 1962	Memorandum Submitted by the Ambassador of the Soviet Union to Zhang Hanfu on 8 June 1962 The Soviet Government presents its views on developments along the Xinjiang-USSR border.
April 30, 1962	The Soviet Document which the Soviet Ambassador Personally Presented to Vice Minister Zhang Hanfu (Translation) A Soviet account, presented to the Chinese Foreign Ministry of the cross border exodus in Xinjiang.
April 24, 1962	Memorandum Given to Vice Minister Zhang Hanfu by the Soviet Ambassador (Translation) The Soviet Union states that, as of April 24, at least 10,000 individuals from Xinjiang have crossed into the USSR.
April 24, 1962	Memorandum Given to the Soviet Ambassador by Vice Minister Zhang Hanfu The Chinese Foreign Ministry protests the cross border flight from Xinjiang.
November 29, 1963	Cable from the Department of Consular Affairs, Chinese Foreign Ministry, 'On Anti-Revisionist Propaganda' Brief report on the status of the Soviet Union and Kazakhstan, including mention of aggressive anti-Chinese propaganda.
November 5, 1963	Report from the Yili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture People’s Committee to the Xinjiang Foreign Affairs Department Report on materials prepared for border defense with request for review.
August 1962	Draft Response to the Memorandum from the Soviet Union dated 9 August Premier Zhou requests a response to a Soviet memorandum regarding a blockade of the border, removing Soviet business representatives in Xinjiang, and allowing White Russians to leave Xinjiang.