More foreign leaders have extended congratulations to their
Chinese counterparts on the success of China's first manned space
flight, hoping China to make more progress in the field of space
technology.
Chinese President Hu Jintao has received congratulatory
telegrams from President Iazuddin Ahmed of Bangladesh, Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee of India, Prime Minister Junichiro
Koizumi of Japan, Chairman of Myanmar's State Peace and Development
Council Than Shwe, King Gyanendra of Nepal, President Nursultan
Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, President Emomali Rakhmonov of
Tajikistan, President Eduard Shevardnadze of Georgia, President
Bashar al-Assad of Syria, President of the Swiss Confederation
Pascal Couchepin, President Boris Trajkovski of Macedonia,
President Maawiya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya of Mauritania, President Luis
Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, President Runaldo Ronald Venetiaan
of Suriname.
Chairman of the Chinese Central Military Commission Jiang
Zeminhas received congratulatory telegrams from Kazakh President
Nursultan Nazarbayev and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro
Koizumi.
Chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's
Congress, Wu Bangguo, has received congratulatory telegrams from
Chairman of the Russian Federation Council Sergei Mironov, Chairman
of the Russian State Duma Gennady Seleznev, Speaker of the
Philippine House of Representatives Jose de Venecia and Speaker of
Parliament of Serbia and Montenegro Dragoljub Micunovic.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has received congratulatory telegrams
from Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee of India, Goh Chok Tong of
Singapore, Junichiro Koizumi of Japan, Khaleda Zia of Bangladesh,
Khin Nyunt of Myanmar and Silvio Berlusconi of Italy.
Chinese Vice-president Zeng Qinghong has received a
congratulatory message from Vice-Chairman of Myanmar's State Peace
and Development Council Maung Aye.
Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing has received a
congratulatory message from his Kyrgyz counterpart Askar
Aytmatov.
(Xinhua News Agency October 17, 2003)
