Ties with Kyrgyzstan upgraded (2)

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President Xi Jinping meets Kyrgyz Prime Minister Jantoro Satybaldiev in Bishkek on Wednesday. Kyrgyzstan is the last stop on Xi's first Central Asian trip. wang ye / xinhua

Atambaev told reporters ahead of Xi's visit that at the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, leaders will exchange views on combating the "three evil forces" of terrorism, extremism and separatism, and drug trafficking and arms smuggling.

Xinhua News Agency on Wednesday quoted a Kyrgyz diplomat as saying that combating the "three evil forces" will be a priority of bilateral cooperation.

Jiang Yi, deputy head of the Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said combating the "three evil forces" now serves as a vital part of successful bilateral cooperation.

During the meeting, Atambaev also said that he "fully supports President Xi Jinping's proposal to forge a Silk Road economic belt", adding he expects fruitful progress in the economic belt in the near future.

In a speech at Kazakhstan's Nazarbayev University on Saturday, Xi proposed establishing the economic belt, similar to the original, ancient Silk Road of more than 2,000 years ago, to boost cooperation between China and Eurasian countries, which have a combined population of 3 billion.

The presidents witnessed the signing of documents, including an agreement on the construction and operation of the Kyrgyzstan-China gas pipeline, which will be a key part of the fourth Turkmenistan-China natural gas pipeline is vital to China's domestic gas supply.

The two nations also pledged to strengthen cooperation on energy and electric grid projects.

The two sides also vowed to boost cooperation in communications and transportation, and study the possibility of establishing cross-border infrastructure facilities.

China is Kyrgyzstan's largest importer and second-largest trading partner. Two-way trade reached $5.16 billion in 2012.

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