India, China vow deep cooperation
INDIA: Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Wednesday
met here with Liu Qibao, a member of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of China and Communist Party Secretary of Sichuan
Province, both sides agreed to further develop friendly and cooperative
relations.
Liu said that in the past few years, China-India relations have
maintained a good momentum of development.
He said China wishes that the both sides can put to work the
important consensus already reached by the leaders of the two countries
and maintain relations of good friendship and good neighborliness, while
deepening and widening cooperation of mutual benefits.
This conforms to not only the basic interests of the two countries,
but also will exert wide-ranging and positive influence on the whole
world, he said. Liu also said that China is willing to work with India
to take advantage of the timing of the 60th anniversary of the
establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries next
year, in order to push forward greater development of bilateral
relations.
For his part, Krishna said that as two emerging powers, it is not
only in the interests of India and China to develop friendly and
cooperative relations, but also is beneficial to the prosperity and
development of Asia and even the whole world.
He said the Indian government and the Congress party are firmly
convinced of the importance of developing good relations with China and
hope to push forward a continuous development of relations of strategic
and cooperative partnership with China.
New Delhi, Thursday, Xinhua |