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The Standing Committee of the 9th National People's Congress (NPC)
has been active in establishing and enhancing ties with foreign
parliaments, said the outgoing Chinese top legislator Li Peng in
Beijing Monday.
Over the past five years, the 9th NPC Standing Committee, China's
top legislature, has received more than 440 delegations from
foreign parliaments, and their visits have helped increase their
understanding of China, said Li Peng in his report on the work of
the 9th NPC Standing Committee to the third plenary meeting of the
first session of the 10th NPC.
He
said NPC has deepened its relations with congresses of neighboring
countries and expanded friendly ties with congresses of other
developing countries, adding that it has maintained a high-level
exchange of visits with parliaments of Russia and other members of
the Commonwealth of Independent States and has set up regular
communication mechanisms with congresses of various developed
countries like the United States and France.
Li
said that the 9th NPC Standing Committee has taken an active part
in multilateral parliamentary diplomatic activities.
He
said during the Conference of Presiding Officers of National
Parliaments in 2000, the Chinese delegation won widespread approval
when it urged congresses across the world to actively promote the
process of multi-polarization and economic globalization.
The 9th NPC Standing Committee hosted the third annual session of
the Association of Asian Parliaments for Peace, the 7th General
Assembly of the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and
Development and the 3rd Asia-Pacific Parliamentarians' Conference
on Environment and Development, he added.
(Xinhua News Agency March 10, 2003)
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