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| 12:43, September 01, 2006 |
| Chinese top legislator lauds China-Brazil strategic partnership |
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Top Chinese legislator Wu Bangguo on Thursday called China and Brazil strategic partners with mutual confidence, saying that after going through 32 years of smooth development, bilateral ties are now at their best.
Wu, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China (NPC), made the remarks while addressing the Brazilian parliament.
China and Brazil, though far apart, began their friendly exchanges in early 1800s. Since the establishment of diplomatic ties 32 years ago, bilateral ties have witnessed smooth development.
As strategic partners with mutual confidence, the two countries share identical views on various international and regional issues, and are in constant consultation and coordination on international and regional affairs.
In recent years, both countries have witnessed frequent high-level exchanges of visits, and their political mutual trust has been strengthened, he said.
Wu went on to recall the exchange of some important visits between the two countries, such as the one made by former Chinese President Jiang Zemin to Brazil in 1993 when China and Brazil decided to establish strategic partnership, and Jiang's 2001 working visit which further promoted the development of the partnership.
Then in 2004, Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva exchanged visits and jointly defined four principles for guiding the development of bilateral ties.
During that visit, both heads of state also decided to establish a high-level China-Brazil high-level committee of coordination and cooperation, which had a significant and far-reaching impact on the promoting the development of bilateral ties, said Wu.
The Memorandum of Understanding on setting up a regular exchange mechanism between China's NPC and Brazil's Chamber of Deputies, signed on Wednesday, demonstrated that the relations between two countries' parliaments had entered a new phase of substantial cooperation.
Wu arrived in Brazil on Tuesday for a four-day official visit. Brazil is the first leg of his three-nation tour in Latin America, which will also take him to Uruguay and Chile.
Source: Xinhua
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