China's top political advisor meets Lao leaders
2/12/2008 16:11
China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin met in Vientiane today
respectively with Lao National Assembly President Thongsing Thammavong and Vice
President Bounnang Vorachit.
Both sides spoke highly of the development of
bilateral relations in the past years during the meetings.
At the meeting
with Thongsing, Jia, member of the Political Bureau Standing Committee of the
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and chairman of the
National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
(CPPCC), said the CPC and the Chinese government have always valued the
friendship between the two countries.
The Chinese side will work with the Lao
side to further promote bilateral good neighborly friendship and comprehensive
cooperation, and push the relations between the two parties and the two
countries to higher levels, said Jia, who arrived yesterday on an official
goodwill visit as guest of Sisavath Keobounphanh, chairman of the Lao Front for
National Reconstruction.
Thongsing, who is also a member of the Political
Bureau of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, said
Jia 's visit coincides with Laos' 33rd anniversary of the founding of the
republic and it helped promote the friendship between the two peoples.
He
said the Lao National Assembly will make continuous efforts to enhance bilateral
political mutual trust and expand exchanges at various levels.
He also said
Laos and China should strengthen cooperation to fight the current international
financial crisis.
During the meeting with Bounnang, Jia voiced his
congratulations on Laos' 33rd anniversary of the founding of the republic and
said China supports Laos' development path suited to its own conditions.
Jia
said the current task facing the two countries is to consolidate traditional
friendship and expand substantial cooperation and it is the firm and set policy
of the Chinese government to deepen bilateral good neighborly friendship and
comprehensive cooperation.
He said he hoped that the two sides will maintain
high-level contacts, further economic and trade cooperation, expand cooperation
in such fields as science, technology, finance and education, and promote
coordination and cooperation in international and regional affairs.
Bounnang,
who is also a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Lao
People's Revolutionary Party, highly valued the smooth growth of the friendship
and cooperation between the two countries.
He said Jia's visit has made
positive contributions to the further development of friendship and cooperation
between the two sides.
Jia also met today with Lao former president Khamtay
Siphandone.
Laos is the third leg of Jia's four-nation visit which has taken
him to Jordan and Turkey, and will also take him to Cambodia.
Xinhua
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