Congress President Sonia Gandhi visiting China five-days
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said Thursday that Indian Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi is in China for a five-day visit.
Liu said at a regular press conference that Sonia Gandhi was invited by the Communist Party of China for the visit, during which she will meet with CPC and China's state leaders.
"We attach great importance to President Sonia's China visit, which will further promote the relations between the two parties, enhance the understanding between the two peoples and push forward the friendly cooperation between the two countries," said Liu.
Besides Beijing, Sonia Gandhi will visit Xi'an, capital of northwestern Shaanxi Province, and China's economic hub of Shanghai.
Gandhi is accompanied by her son Raul Gandhi, general secretary of the congress party, as well as leaders of the Karan Singh and Prithviraj Chavan political group, and Deputy Foreign Minister Anand Sharma.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiachi and Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee agreed to "strive for an ealy agreement on a framework which could be fair, rational and acceptable for both sides on resolving the bilateral border issue," it said.
State media quoted Yang as saying the fact that the Chinese and Indian ministers had met four times in six months reflected the "great attention paid by the two countries on bilateral ties."
They also "exchanged views on how to appropriately solve the Myanmar issue," the ministry said without elaborating.
Yang, Mukherjee and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday jointly opposed sanctions against Myanmar, following a trilateral foreign ministers' meeting in the north-eastern Chinese city of Harbin,foreign ministers also pledged support for the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and vowed to strengthen cooperation against terrorism, transnational organized crime and drug trafficking.
Liu said at a regular press conference that Sonia Gandhi was invited by the Communist Party of China for the visit, during which she will meet with CPC and China's state leaders.
"We attach great importance to President Sonia's China visit, which will further promote the relations between the two parties, enhance the understanding between the two peoples and push forward the friendly cooperation between the two countries," said Liu.
Besides Beijing, Sonia Gandhi will visit Xi'an, capital of northwestern Shaanxi Province, and China's economic hub of Shanghai.
Gandhi is accompanied by her son Raul Gandhi, general secretary of the congress party, as well as leaders of the Karan Singh and Prithviraj Chavan political group, and Deputy Foreign Minister Anand Sharma.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiachi and Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee agreed to "strive for an ealy agreement on a framework which could be fair, rational and acceptable for both sides on resolving the bilateral border issue," it said.
State media quoted Yang as saying the fact that the Chinese and Indian ministers had met four times in six months reflected the "great attention paid by the two countries on bilateral ties."
They also "exchanged views on how to appropriately solve the Myanmar issue," the ministry said without elaborating.
Yang, Mukherjee and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday jointly opposed sanctions against Myanmar, following a trilateral foreign ministers' meeting in the north-eastern Chinese city of Harbin,foreign ministers also pledged support for the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and vowed to strengthen cooperation against terrorism, transnational organized crime and drug trafficking.
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