Wu Bangguo, Chairman of the Standing Committee
of China's National People's Congress (NPC), made four suggestions
Saturday on expanding cooperation between the parliaments of China
and Moldova.
Wu said during the talks with Moldavian Parliament Chairman
Marian Lupu that China and Moldova maintain the trend of exchanges
of visits at top levels, expand exchanges between special
committees, friendship groups, and young law-makers of the two
parliaments, learn from each other in the areas of law-making and
supervision, and strengthen coordination in law-making affairs at
the world and regional levels.
Wu said cooperation between parliaments is an important part of
bilateral relations and his visit here is to strengthen parliament
cooperation to deepen Sino-Moldavian friendship.
The Moldavian parliament chairman said Moldova is willing to
work together with the Chinese side to increase exchanges and
cooperation between the Moldavian Parliament and China's NPC to
contribute to the further development of bilateral relations.
Lupu said that Wu's visit is the first by a chairman of China's
NPC to Moldova, which marks a new stage in the Moldavian-Chinese
relations and exchanges between the parliaments of the two
countries.
He expressed the belief that the visit by Wu would contribute to
the full-fledged development of the bilateral relations.
Lupu reiterated on the occasion that Moldova adheres to the
One-China policy and always holds that Taiwan is an undivided part
of the Chinese territory.
After the talks, the two leaders attended the signing ceremony
of an agreement on economic cooperation between China and
Moldova.
Wu arrived here earlier Saturday for a two-day official good-
well visit and Moldova is the second leg of his four-nation tour,
which will also take him to Greece and Russia.
(Xinhua News Agency May 21, 2006)