Visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said in Bishkek Tuesday that
China is ready to comprehensively enhance cooperation with
Kyrgyzstan on the basis of equality, mutual trust and mutual
benefit.
The Chinese government attached great importance to developing
friendly relations with Kyrgyzstan and regarded the Central Asian
country as a sincere friend and important partner of China, Wen
said at a meeting with his Kyrgyz counterpart Nikolai Tanayev.
Tanayev shared this view, saying the two countries trusted each
other politically and had made joint efforts to promote bilateral
ties in economic and trade fields as well as in security
affairs.
Wen arrived in Bishkek Tuesday afternoon local time for an
official visit to the Kyrgyz Republic, the first leg of his
two-nation trip to Central Asia and Russia.
Wen said at the meeting that since the establishment of
diplomatic ties 12 years ago, bilateral ties had developed
steadily, witnessing great cooperation achievements in the
political and economic fields. He said that during the visit the
two countries signed a series of documents guiding bilateral
cooperation from 2004 to 2014. These documents, he said, would mark
another great achievement in bilateral ties.
Wen suggested that the two countries work harder to create
favorable conditions for cooperation between the two countries'
enterprises, particularly large-scale joint ventures. China and
Kyrgyzstan should expand cooperation in the fields of energy,
mineral exploitation and electric communications, and enhance
border trade, Wen said.
He stressed the importance of joining efforts in fighting
against terrorism, extremism and separatism, saying this was a
major part of security cooperation between the two countries.
"We should strengthen our efforts in combating terrorism and
take concrete and effective measures in safeguarding human lives
and properties in the two countries," Wen said.
Tanayev reiterated that developing ties with China was his
country's consistent policy, saying Kyrgyzstan would work with
China to implement the documents signed by the two countries.
During his visit to Kyrgyzstan from Sept. 21-23, Wen will attend
the third meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
among Prime Ministers from SCO member states.
(Xinhua News Agency September 22, 2004)