China will work with Russia to enhance strategic mutual trust
and substantial cooperation to advance the China-Russian strategic
partnership of cooperation to a new stage, President Hu Jintao said in Beijing on Thursday.
In a meeting with Russian Federation Council Chairman Sergei
Mironov, Hu said China and Russia had maintained sound relations
and the cooperation made progress. "The Year of China" in Russia
had enriched Sino-Russian relations.
Hu said China would enhance mutual understanding and friendship
with Russia in accordance with the principles of good-neighborly
and cooperative treaty between the two countries.
Hu also said Chinese government supported legislative exchanges
with Russia, hoping the two sides would strengthen the cooperation
in the multilateral organizations including the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization.
Mironov said furthering the relationship with China had been
common aspiration of Russia's all parties and political groups, and
the Russian Federation Council would like to work with the National
People's Congress of China to push forward cooperation of the two
countries in all areas.
Top legislator Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao also held talks with Mironov on
Thursday.
(Xinhua News Agency September 28, 2007)