Visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday met with
Belarussian acting Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko to discuss
further promoting bilateral relations.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao
meets with Belarussian acting Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko in
Minsk, the capital of Belarussia, on November 5, 2007.
Since China and Belarus established diplomatic ties 15 years
ago, mutual trust has been increasingly strengthened, as the two
countries always respected each other's own paths of development as
well as each other's domestic and foreign policy, Wen said.
The two countries have continuously expanded cooperation by
signing a series of bilateral economic cooperation agreements and
legal documents, Wen added.
Friendly relations between the two countries have also been
deepened as China and Belarus have launched various friendly
exchanges in fields of humanism, the Chinese premier said.
He said China-Belarus relations are based on the Five Principles
of Peaceful Coexistence and other norms governing international
relations, in accordance with each other's fundamental interests,
stressing that it is a long-lasting and firm relationship.
Wen said leaders of the two countries signed a joint communique
when Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko visited China in
2005, which showed that China-Belarus relations had entered a new
stage of all-round development and strategic cooperation.
China has attached great importance to its relations with
Belarus and is willing to work with it to further promote the
development of economic and trade relations between the two
countries, the Chinese Premier said.
Currently, the two countries should give priority to increasing
mutual investment and expanding cooperation in the fields of
telecom, light industry and fundamental infrastructure.
Wen said China appreciates the valuable support given by Belarus
on the Taiwan issue by constantly upholding the "one-China
policy."
During the talks, Semashko said bilateral ties between the two
countries are built on solid foundations and the two countries have
maintained exchange and cooperation regarding bilateral ties and
international issues.
He said Belarus affords great importance to its relations with
China and hopes to deepen bilateral cooperation, expand mutual
investment and upgrade the economic and trade ties between the two
countries.
Wen arrived Sunday for an official visit at the invitation of
Lukashenko. He's visit also coincides with the 15th anniversary of
the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries.
This is the third leg of Wen's four-nation visit, which will
also take him to Russia.
Wen has already visited Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan and attended
the sixth Meeting of Prime Ministers of the Member States of the
Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the Uzbek capital
Tashkent.
(Xinhua News Agency November 6, 2007)
