Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Tuesday, March 25, 2003
China, Pakistan to Establish Friendship Forum
China and Pakistan will establisha friendship forum aiming to strengthen bilateral friendly ties, according to a China-Pakistan joint press communique issued Monday.
China and Pakistan will establisha friendship forum aiming to strengthen bilateral friendly ties, according to a China-Pakistan joint press communique issued Monday.
The communique says Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Pakistani Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali agreed to set up the China-Pakistan friendship forum during their talks here.
Well-known people and experts in various fields from the two countries will join the forum, which will carry out all kinds of exchanges and activities as well as map out plans to enhance bilateral cooperation in politics, economics, journalism as well as the academic and cultural fields, says the communique.
Beijing and Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, will take turns to hold forum meetings, according to the communique. The first plenary session will be held in the latter part of this year in Islamabad, but the exact date is yet to be decided.