China and Indonesia are willing to push forward the development
of their strategic partnership to a greater depth, senior leaders
from both countries said as they met in Jakarta Monday.
Jia Qinglin, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese
People's Political Consultative Conference, held talks with Hidayat
Nur Wahid, chairman of the People's Consultative Assembly of
Indonesia.
In the same day, Jia also met with Ginandjar Kartasasmita, head
of the Regional Representatives Council of Indonesia.
During the meetings, Jia made positive comment on the
development of bilateral relations. He said China and Indonesia
have been friendly neighbors ever since ancient times. The people
of the two countries have forged deep friendship through the
communications over the past nearly 2,000 years.
Since the two countries established diplomatic links 56 years
ago, bilateral relations have made great progress, especially in
the past few years, Jia said. He noted that the two countries have
maintained frequent exchanges of high-level visits, continuously
deepened political trust, achieved remarkable results in trade and
economic cooperation and expanded exchanges and cooperation in such
fields as science, technology, culture and education. The two
countries have maintained close communication and cooperation on
international affairs.
Jia said people of the two countries have shown mutual
understanding and mutual support during Asian financial crisis, the
strikes of SARS and bird flu and natural disasters of earthquake
and tsunami, hence deepening their traditional friendship.
Jia said the year 2005 is a milestone in the history of
bilateral relations. President Hu Jintao and Indonesian President
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono jointly declared the establishment of
strategic partnership between the two countries last year. This
move lifts bilateral relations and mutually beneficial cooperation
to a higher level of all-round development, Jia said.
Jia said this year is an important year for both countries to
add more substantial content to and develop the strategic
partnership. He said China is ready to join hands with Indonesia to
implement the important consensus that the heads of state reached
last year by expanding and deepening mutually beneficial
cooperation in such fields as trade, economy, investment,
infrastructure development, energy and resources development.
Jia expressed the willingness to expand exchanges and
cooperation between CPPCC and the People's Consultative Assembly of
Indonesia at all levels.
Hidayat and Ginandjar both agreed that China has become a major
economic partner of Indonesia. They said bilateral relations are
now in the best times in history.
The Indonesian officials expressed the willingness to have even
closer high-level contact and expand trade and economic cooperation
with China so as to lift the strategic partnership to a higher
level.
They expressed the wish to further strengthen exchanges and
cooperation between the People's Consultative Assembly, Regional
Representatives Council of Indonesia and CPPCC.
Both Hidayat and Ginandjar reiterated that Indonesia will as
always firmly pursue the one-China policy and wish early
realization of reunification of China.
(Xinhua News Agency March 28, 2006)
