The official visit that Chinese vice-foreign minister to Nepal ended up today
Time: 2012/8/14
Visiting Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Fu Ying ended up her four-day official visit to Nepal on Tuesday on KATHMANDU, Aug. 14Fu said the purpose of her tour is to follow up the visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to Nepal in January this year and implement the bilateral agreements, especially those signed during Premier Wen's visit.
During her visit, Fu, who arrived here Saturday leading a seven-member delegation, called upon Nepali Prime Minister Babu Ram Bhattarai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Narayan Kaji Shrestha along with other senior government officials, government leaders, academics, journalists and businessmen of Nepal.
Fu also attended the ninth meeting of China-Nepal Consultative Mechanism which discussed promotion of bilateral trade, Chinese investment in Nepal, infrastructure development, border security and tourism promotion, among others.
Addressing a gathering organized by the Chinese Embassy in Nepal Monday evening, Fu said that the visit has been a fruitful one and expressed her hope that her visit will further enhance China-Nepal relations.
She said China and Nepal should work together in maintaining domestic political stability which will help enhance economic development in both countries.
"Developing countries like China and Nepal should try to maintain domestic political stability thus enabling us to bring about economic development and prosperity to benefit our own people," she said.
Fu said the two nations should lose no time and seize the opportunity to speed up economic growth and to enter into industrialization which was missed out in the past.
She also said the two sides had extensive discussions on cultural and educational exchanges and tourism in particular. "I visited Lumbini, the birth place of Gautam Buddha and I'm interested in helping Nepal to develop Lumbini," she said.
She also expressed appreciation of Nepal's commitment to close relations with China while supporting the One-China policy. "We are very grateful to the Nepalese side for its support to issues which are very important to China," the vice foreign minister said.
Fu also expressed China's commitment to continued support and assistance to Nepal. "We will also speed up implementing the help committed by Premier Wen Jiabao for providing some 150 million U.S. dollars worth of assistance to Nepal," she said.
The vice foreign minister also said that China's central government will continue to support the Tibet Autonomous Region in enhancing exchange and cooperation with Nepal at regional levels and in providing food assistance to the mountainous regions.
From:ChinaTibetNews
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