An extract.
>China hopes to further increase exchanges between the legislative bodies of
>China and India, as a consolidated Sino-Indian friendship and its further
>development are of great significance to both the economic development of the
>two countries and the stability of the region, China's top legislator Li Peng
>said in New York on Thursday. Li, chairman of the Standing Committee of the
>National People's Congress, made the remark during his meeting with Gandhi
>Balayogi, speaker of the Lok Sabha, or the House of the People. The two
>leaders are attending the millennium summit of the national parliaments, which
>began at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Wednesday. Li said
>that he hoped to push forward the development of bilateral relations and
>cooperation in every possible field by increasing exchanges between the
>legislative bodies of the two countries. He also noted that the five
>principles of peaceful coexistence proposed by Chinese and Indian leaders
>decades ago continue to be important guidelines in the development of
>international relations today. Balayogi agreed with Li that India and China
>share identical views on many issues, such as multi-polarization of the world.
>Regardless of the size of countries, they are all equal members of the
>international community, and share such principles as mutual respect of
>sovereignty and territorial integrity, and non-interference of internal
>affairs in other countries. He hoped parliamentary cooperation between the two
>countries would become an important component of overall bilateral ties. Li
>also said he noted that in her opening speech at the millennium summit of the
>presiding officers of the national parliaments Wednesday morning, Najma
>Heptulla, who is the deputy chairperson of the Rajya Sabha of India -- the
>Upper House of Parliament -- and the president of the Council of the Inter-
>Parliamentary Union (IPU) and chairwoman of the millennium parliamentary
>summit, reflected China's views, which were drafted in the final declaration
>of the parliamentary summit. "We rededicate ourselves to the ideals enshrined
>in the UN Charter, adopted some 55 years ago, and to work together to address
>the main challenges facing the world community. These are achievements of
>international peace and security, democracy and respect of human rights
>without compromising sovereignty and equality and without interfering into
>internal affairs of member states and allowing each country to choose its own
>path of development," she said in her speech on Wednesday. (Xinhua)
_______________________________________
KOMINFORM
P.O. Box 66
00841 Helsinki - Finland
+358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081
e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.kominf.pp.fi
_______________________________________
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subscribe/unsubscribe messages
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
________________________________________
