Chinese and Chilean top legislators on Wednesday spoke highly of
the Sino-Chilean relations and vowed to work together to push
forward the all-round cooperative partnership between the two
countries.
Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's
National People's Congress (NPC), said that as developing
countries, China and Chile have similar past, face the same task,
share broad common interests and hold same or similar views on many
key international and regional issues.
To develop the Sino-Chilean relations is in the fundamental
interests of the two countries and their peoples, which is also
conducive to the development of ties between China and Latin
America and to regional and world peace and prosperity, Wu said
during meeting with Antonio Leal Labrin, president of Chile's
Chamber of Deputies.
Wu also said China attaches great importance to its relationship
with Chile and is willing to work together with Chile to promote
pragmatic cooperation in various fields to push the all-round
China-Chile partnership of cooperation to a new high.
On parliamentary exchanges, Wu said the NPC of China attaches
importance to ties with Chile's Chamber of Deputies and is willing
to enhance friendly exchanges at various levels and launch
cooperation in various fields, so as to further strengthen mutual
political trust and promote pragmatic cooperation in economy and
trade, culture and other fields.
Wu, who arrived in Santiago on Tuesday for a visit to Chile,
also expressed the hope that the two legislative bodies would
achieve substantial exchanges, deepen mutual understanding and
enhance mutual political trust through the political dialogue
mechanism established in February between the two countries'
legislative bodies.
For his part, Leal said the "same or similar" views held by
China and Chile on the world development have turned the two
countries into important partners, and the legislatures of the two
countries have played an important role in promoting bilateral
relations.
He also said although lawmakers of the Chamber of Deputies come
from different regions of Chile and from different political
parties, they unanimously favor developing relations with
China.
The establishment of the political dialogue mechanism has fully
manifested the wishes of the two sides to develop the all-round and
friendly Chile-China ties.
Before meeting with Leal, Wu held talks with Senate President
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle.
Chile is the last leg of Wu's three-nation South America tour,
which has taken him to Brazil and Uruguay.
(Xinhua News Agency September 8, 2006)
