China to enhance cooperation, parliamentary exchanges with Yemen
18/11/2008 17:59
Ismail Tiliwaldi, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National
People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, today wrapped up a four-day
goodwill visit to Yemen.
During his stay in the country, Ismail Tiliwaldi met
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Prime Minister Ali Muhammad al-Mujawar,
Parliament Speaker Yahia al-Ra'i and other senior officials.
He told the
Yemeni leaders that China and Yemen have enjoyed a long-standing friendship and
China is willing to deepen mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields and
enhance parliamentary exchanges with Yemen.
In recent years, the two
countries have witnessed frequent high-level visits, ever-deepening economic and
trade cooperation, and close coordination on international and regional affairs,
said the legislator, who was visiting Yemen at the invitation of the country's
parliament.
China attaches importance to the development of traditional
friendship with Yemen and is willing to deepen bilateral mutually beneficial
cooperation in such fields as economy and trade, investment, culture, science
and technology, and the health sector, the legislator said.
He also called on
the two countries to further parliamentary exchanges in a bid to promote the
all-round development of friendly relations between the two
countries.
President Saleh and other top Yemen officials spoke highly of the
achievements China has made in past years and congratulated the country on its
successful hosting of the Beijing Olympic Games.
They also expressed
gratitude for China's sincere support and disinterested assistance for Yemen's
development and vowed to expand the scope of bilateral economic and trade
cooperation.
The parliament of Yemen has also pledged to deepen exchanges and
cooperation with its Chinese counterpart.
Yemen is the second leg of Ismail
Tiliwaldi's three-country tour that began in Tunisia and will end in
Egypt.
Xinhua
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