EU Announces Team for EU-China SummitAn EU delegation for EU-China Beijing summit slated for October 23 will include senior officials like European Commission President Romano Prodi, the European Commission said on Thursday.The delegation, to be headed by French President Jacques Chirac, who presently holds the rotating presidency of the EU, also include EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy, EU Economy Commissioner Pedro Solbes Mira, and EU Foreign and Secretary Policy Czar Javier Solana. The summit, aimed at promoting relations between the EU and China, will focus on China's WTO accession and the two sides' cooperation in combating human being trafficking and illegal immigration, said the commission in a statement. In the past five years, the EU and China have made achievements in the fields of education, science and technology, energy, environment, agriculture, civil aviation and telecommunications, with projects that have been valued at around 60 million euro (50 million U.S. dollars) a year. The first EU-China summit was held in London in April 1998, and the second summit was held in Beijing last December. |
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