Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Wednesday, November 05, 2003
Premier Wen urges stronger Sino-Pak economic ties
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Tuesday that China and Pakistan, which enjoy increasingly solid traditional friendly relations, should work to increase bilateral trade volume according to the newly signed preferential trade arrangements between the two sides.
Chinese Premier Wen meets with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Tuesday that China and Pakistan, which enjoy increasingly solid traditional friendly relations, should work to increase bilateral trade volume according to the newly signed preferential trade arrangements between the two sides.
The two countries should do a good job in carrying out the projects, both under construction and being proposed, so that they can bring economic and social benefits to the two countries at an early date, Wen said at a meeting with visiting Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.
Wen suggested that the two sides speed up negotiation on other projects financed by China.
According to Wen, cooperation between China and Pakistan in all fields is based on equality and mutual trust, in line with the principle of safeguarding peace and stability, and targeted at mutual benefit and reciprocity.
Based on good political ties, the two sides will expand trade and economic cooperation with China's sustained, healthy and stable economic development and growing foreign trade, Wen said.
China is willing to work with Pakistan to carry out the joint declaration they signed on the development orientation of bilateral relations.
Musharraf praised Pakistan-China relations as time-honored, saying the traditional friendship and mutual trust between the two people would always push forward bilateral relations.
He agreed with Wen on expansion of bilateral trade and economic relations and said China is able to play a key role in promoting regional cooperation in Asia.