China, Mexico to further promote ties
25/1/2005 16:50
China and Mexico should work out new measures to enrich and deepen their
strategic partnership, embodied in broad cooperation in political, economic and
cultural fields, visiting Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong said Monday
during a meeting with Mexican President Vicente Fox.
The two leaders had an
in-depth exchange of views on their two countries' cooperation and reached
extensive consensus.
Thirty-three years after the establishment of diplomatic
ties, today's Sino-Mexican ties are full of vigor, Zeng said. Mutual trust has
deepened over the years, bilateral cooperation in various sectors has been
fruitful and the two countries have enjoyed good coordination on international
affairs. All these have brought practical benefits to the peoples of both
nations, he said.
China is satisfied with the development of bilateral ties
and appreciates Mexico's adherence to the one-China policy, the vice president
said, adding that Mexico has become one of China's most important political and
trading partners in Latin America.
China and Mexico share extensive common
ground in safeguarding world peace, promoting mutual development and dealing
with the challenges in a globalized world, Zeng said.
Therefore, it is all
the more important for the two countries to maintain high-level contacts between
their governments, parliaments and political parties, and to strengthen the
overall guiding and coordinating role of the Sino-Mexican joint standing
committee, he said.
Both sides should work out concrete steps to expand
mutual investment and trade and improve the trading structure, Zeng said. The
two countries should also explore new ways of cooperation in the fields of
telecommunications, household electrical appliances, the light industry,
ship-building and high-tech industries.
Zeng called for more personnel and
information exchanges between the two countries' cultural and non-governmental
bodies, institutions of higher learning and research.
He also urged the two
nations to enhance consultation and cooperation in the frameworks of the United
Nations, the World Trade Organization, the Organization of Asia Pacific Economic
Cooperation and the Organization of American States.
Fox said he saw eye to
eye with Zeng on these proposals, which highlighted the goals of bilateral
cooperation.
In recent years, Mexico and China have had remarkable
cooperation in various fields and they shared identical views on some important
international issues, Fox said. The two sides have been looking for new channels
of cooperation since the establishment of their strategic partnership in 2003,
he said.
Mexico highly values its ties with China and is keen to further
strengthen this relationship of cooperation, the president said.
Fox
reiterated Mexico's adherence to the one-China policy and the principles of
peaceful reunification and "one country, two systems." Mexico understands China
in its pursuit of new legislation against "Taiwan independence," he said.
The
two sides agreed to set up a team of trade and investment promotion, trade
structure analysis, trade statistics and industrial policy within the joint
high-ranking working panel of economy and trade, so as to give a new impetus to
bilateral economic and trade cooperation.
After their talks, Zeng and Fox
attended the signing ceremony of seven bilateral cooperation accords.
Also on
Monday, Zeng met with Mexico's Chamber of Deputies President Malio Fabio
Beltrones and Senate President Diego Fernandez de Cevallos. Zeng expressed his
hope for closer cooperation between the legislatures of the two countries, while
the two Mexican parliamentary leaders vowed to make unremitting efforts to
enhance the partnership between the two countries.
Zeng flew into Mexico
Sunday on the first leg of his five- nation visit to Latin America and the
Caribbean, which will also take him to Peru, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, and
Jamaica.
Zeng is also scheduled to attend the opening ceremony of the first
ministerial-level meeting of the China-Caribbean Economy and Trade Cooperation
Forum 2005 on Feb. 2 in Kingston, capital of Jamaica.
Xinhua
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