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Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan Met with Indonesian,
New Zealand and Swedish Foreign Ministers
On July 28, Foreign Minister
Tang Jiaxuan met Foreign Ministers Goff of New Zealand,
Shihab of Indonesia, and Lindh of Sweden. They exchanged
views on bilateral relations and regional and international
issues of common concern.
When meeting
Indonesian Foreign Minister Alwi Shihab, Foreign Tang
expressed his satisfaction with the current development of
bilateral relations, and reaffirmed China's support to the
Indonesian government's efforts in safeguarding territorial
integrity and national unity. Foreign Minister Tang also
congratulated and welcomed Indonesia's being the coordinator
country in ASEAN-China relations, promising China will
actively cooperate with Indonesia to further push forward
continuously good neighborly partnership of mutual trust
between China and ASEAN and between China and Indonesia.
Foreign minister Tang expressed his pleasure in
meeting his New Zealand counterpart Phil Goff, and expected
to meet him again in Beijing soon to exchange ideas on
bilateral ties and issues of common interest. China is
willing to make efforts together with New Zealand to further
enhance the bilateral relations. Goff, on his
part, said the present New Zealand-Chinese relations are
developing smoothly in all areas, and reaffirmed his
government's position of sticking to the "One
China" policy and not establishing any official ties
with Taiwan. In his meeting with Swedish Foreign
Minister Anna Lindh, Foreign Minister Tang expressed his
hope that Sweden will actively promote Sino-European
friendly cooperation and mutual interest in various fields
during its rotating presidency of the European Union in the
first half of next year, and further push forward
Sino-European relations.
In the
morning of the same day, Foreign Minister Tang and other
foreign ministers attending a series of ASEAN meetings
called on Thai Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai.
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