Vice Premier Wu Yi put forward three proposals in Beijing Friday
for future Sino-African cooperation, saying both China and African
countries should make further effort to tap cooperation
potentials.
Wu made the proposals at the opening ceremony of the Third
Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, a
mechanism for collective dialogue and cooperation jointly
established by China and Africa to cope with new challenges and
facilitate common development.
In her first proposal, Wu said the two sides should always
instill new vitality into the Forum, and draw up plan for future
cooperation and carry out follow-up activities to turn the Forum
into a pacesetter in promoting China-Africa all-round
friendship.
She said in her second proposal that the two sides, with an eye
on new developments, should fully tap cooperation potential and
draw on each other's strengths to broaden and upgrade
cooperation.
The two sides should be guided by the principle of being open
and inclusive, take a creative approach and benefit from each
other's experiences so as to enable the Forum to play a major role
in boosting international cooperation in development, she
added.
Wu finally called on the two sides to enhance coordination to
ensure smooth progress in cooperation.
"The two sides should give full play to the role of the Forum as
a mechanism of collective dialogue, keep close consultation,
develop new consensus, closely study new trends in cooperation,
expand common interests and appropriately address new problems
arising in the course of cooperation, so as to turn the Forum into
an effective platform for safeguarding the common interests of the
two sides," she said.
(Xinhua News Agency November 3, 2006)
