Senior legislator Jiang Zhenghua Monday met with Vice President
of the Chilean Senate Carlos Ominami Pascual, pledging to cement
bilateral parliamentary exchanges.
Noting Chile as the first country to forge diplomatic ties with
China in Latin America, Jiang, vice chairman of the Standing
Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top
legislature, said the two countries achieved great progress in
developing ties since establishment of diplomatic ties 37 years
ago.
The two sides not only have fruitful cooperation in various
fields but also kept sound coordination on many international
issues, he added.
As parliamentary exchanges are an important part of bilateral
ties, Jiang said the NPC and the Chilean parliament have kept close
cooperation, and set up political dialogue mechanism last year to
further facilitate parliamentary exchanges.
"The NPC values its relations with the Chilean parliament, and
will further enhance parliamentary exchanges with Chile and
increase personnel exchanges," Jiang said.
In response, Ominami said the Chilean Senate will continue to
beef up cooperation and exchanges with the NPC and contribute to
overall bilateral ties.
He also hopes the two countries' enterprises carry out more
win-win cooperation.
The delegation are here at the invitation of the NPC financial
and economic commission.
(Xinhua News Agency April 23, 2007)
