China, Belarus forge comprehensive strategic partnership (2)

（Xinhua）  08:17, July 17, 2013  

In economic areas, the two countries will deepen cooperation in infrastructure, machinery manufacturing, communications, building materials, energy, chemicals, finance and other fields.

They will push forward large projects, increase bilateral trade on high value-added and high-tech based products, boost a balanced growth in bilateral trade, expand mutual investment and build joint ventures and the China-Belarus Industrial Park.

The two sides will also enhance people-to-people exchanges. China will welcome more Belarusian students. The two sides will jointly establish Confucius Institutes, hold a Culture Day as well as promote local exchanges.

China and Belarus will strengthen coordination in international affairs. They will make joint efforts to safeguard the UN Charter and World War II victory results, promote a multipolar world, democratization of international relations as well as world peace, stability and prosperity.

After their talks, Xi and Lukashenko signed a joint statement on establishing a bilateral comprehensive strategic partnership and witnessed the signing of a series of bilateral cooperation documents.

According to a joint statement, China and Belarus support relevant countries and peoples in West Asia and North Africa to independently explore development paths in line with their national conditions, encourage relevant parties to resolve differences through inclusive political dialogues.

The two sides also agreed to enhance communication and coordination on the human rights issue. They hold that different countries should deal with their differences on human rights through dialogue and cooperation rather than confrontation.

They oppose to put pressure on other countries and interfere in the internal matters of other nations using human rights as a pretext, said the statement.