Comprehensive consensus was reached between China and Romania on
further boosting the China-Romania friendship and all-round
friendly and cooperative partnership during a summit meeting in
Beijing on Tuesday afternoon.
Meeting with his Romanian counterpart Traian Basescu, Chinese
President Hu Jintao said that China-Romania relations have seen
stable development despite a changing international situation and
their respective states of domestic affairs.
"The two sides have established mutual political trust and
equality, harvested mutual economic benefit and forged mutual
understanding and close coordination in relation to various
international issues," Hu said, expressing his appreciation for
Romania's adherence to the one-China and other friendly policies in
regard to China.
"We respect the development path chosen by the Romanian people
and always regard Romania as a good friend and partner in Central
and Eastern Europe," Hu stressed.
Basescu highlighted the traditional friendly and cooperative
relations between Romania and China, noting that China is a major
part of his country's foreign policy.
Romania will not change its policy on the Taiwan issue, and
supports the one-China policy, Basescu said, stressing that the
Taiwan issue is China's internal affairs and the issue of
reunification should be resolved by the Chinese people.
Hu said that Sino-Romanian relations have entered into a new
stage of development, noting that it is their joint responsibility
to consolidate and further the traditional friendship and
strengthen the pragmatic cooperation in various fields to step up
the bilateral relations in the new century.
"To realize such a goal, China will maintain the high-level
exchanges and cement the friendly communications between the two
governments, legislatures and parties", Hu vowed.
The two governments should make efforts to help Chinese and
Romanian businesses to foster cooperation and investment in key
industries to expand economic and trade cooperation, Hu said.
Hu also called on the two sides to further bilateral cooperation
in fields such as culture, education and tourism, and intensify
consultation and coordination on issues like human rights, UN
reform and the campaign against terrorism.
Basescu agreed with Hu's proposals to foster Romania-China
cooperation, saying that Romania regards China as an important
economic partner in Asia, welcomes Chinese businesses to invest in
Romania and will create a favorable environment with preferential
investment policies.
After the talks, the two leaders attended the signing ceremony
of a memorandum of understanding on bilateral cooperation and
administrative assistance concerning customs and excise.
(Xinhua News Agency March 29, 2006)