Outer relations

In the year 2000 anniversary of the establishment of official relations between China and the European Union was marked the 25. The contacts of high level between China and Europe have maintained their frequency, and the cooperation of mutual benefit in the diverse scopes has expanded continuously.

In October, the President of France, Jacques Chirac, carried out an official visit to China. In the conversations realized between President Jiang Zemin and his homologous French, both parts arrived at a consensus on a series of important questions, and are prepared to intensify the consultations still more and the coordination in the international subjects of importance enters countries both.

Prime minister Zhu Rongji headed III the Meeting Chinese-European Summit with the President of France, country president of the EU, and the president of the Commission of the EU. The parts arrived at the ample unamimity with respect to the extension of the cooperation in the diverse scopes.

Prime minister Zhu Rongji also visited successfully Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg and he soothes of the EU, which energetically promoted the development of the stable and long term constructive association between China and the European Community.

China maintains good relations with all the neighboring countries

China is the country with greater number of neighboring countries of the world, and is prepared to establish and to develop the stable and long term friendly relations of good vicinity with all neighbors, to reach the mutual understanding and the respect, the treatment equally, the cooperation on bases of mutual benefit, friendship and association. China has been important factor to safeguard La Paz and the stability of the region, and has registered firm progresses in the relations with the countries of the region.

In 2000, the Chinese diplomacy towards the neighboring countries was more active and pragmatic. China reacted in time before the abrupt change happened in the Korean peninsula and played a role special. China firmly supports the distension between the two North and South parts of the peninsula, and maintains that the same realize interchanges for a pacific reunification. China limits with the Korean peninsula, and is prepared to continue delivering attacks to promote La Paz and the stability of this peninsula. In May, Kim Jong Il, Secretary General of the Party of the Work of Korea and president of the Commission of National defense, carried out a successful visit to China, which consolidated and developed the Chinese-Korean traditional friendship still more. In October, Chinese Prime minister Zhu Rongji visited the Republic of Korea officially. In the visit, both parts decided to promote the relations of partners of cooperation, being taken it to a new stage of integral interchange.

The relations between China and the countries of the Southeast of Asia have registered new progresses, and the cooperation of mutual benefit in the diverse fields has been deepened continuously. President Jiang Zemin realized successful historical visits to Laos, Cambodia and Brunei, whereas many leaders of the countries of Southeast Asia visited China separately. After the establishment of relations of partners of oriented mutual confidence and good vicinity towards the new century with the Association of Nations of Southeast Asia (ANSEA), China has signed, until 2000, framework document for the promotion of the bilateral cooperation with 10 Member States of the ANSEA. During his attendance to IV the Summit of ANSEA and China-Japan-Korea (10 more 3) and China-ANSEA (10 more 1), Prime minister Zhu Rongji specifically indicated the Chinese point of view on the development of the cooperation of the east of Asia, and presented/displayed a series of concrete proposals with respect to the intensification of the regional cooperation, which showed the sincerity of the Chinese part and obtained the general appreciation of the participants of the meeting.

The relations between China and the south of Asia also are being developed. Narayanan, President of India, and Musharraf, first executive head of Pakistan, carried out respective visits to China, recovering and improving of remarkable form the China-India relations and fortifying the China-Pakistan friendship still more.

The regional cooperation carried out between China and the neighboring countries of Central Asia, through organism of the “Group of the Five of Shanghai”, maintain a tendency towards the active development. President Jiang Zemin visited Tajikistan and attended the V Meeting of the Chiefs of State of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The five top leaders signed the Joint Declaration of Dushanbi, with which they announce that the five countries are against of joint way the national separatism, the international terrorism and the religious extremism, and arrived at a transcendental consensus with respect to the construction from the good oriented vicinity and the pacific cooperation towards the 21st century. The organism of the “Group of the Five of Shanghai” plays a role more and more important in safeguard of regional La Paz and the fortification of the regional stability and the development.

China tries new ways and fields to fortify the active cooperation
with the developing countries

Like developing country, China maintains its traditional friendship and one firm base of cooperation with the developing countries. Against the new present situation, in the passage from a century to another one, China is exploring of active way new ways and fields to intensify the cooperation with those countries in order that their relations acquire a new vigor in the 21st century.

In 2000, the Chinese leaders Jiang Zemin, Li Peng, Zhu Rongji, Li Ruihuan and Hu Jintao visited in different occasions from many developing countries, taking new firm steps in the promotion of the relations with them. He is worth the pain to mention that under the auspices of China, the “Forum of China-Africa Cooperation was celebrated successfully in Peking --Conference Ministerial' 2000 of Peking”. They attended the conference four originating Chiefs of State of Togo, Algeria, Zambia and Tanzania, the Secretary General of the Organization of Unification of Africa, and 45 ministerial representatives of the countries African and responsible for corresponding the international and regional organizations. In the meeting, President Jiang Zemin presented/displayed four proposals for the fortification of the Chinese-African cooperation and the political and economic joint promotion of the establishment of the new international order, which obtained unanimous endorsement of the participants. The conference approved the “Declaration of Peking of the Forum of China-Africa Cooperation” and the “Cooperative Program of Social Development and Economic China-Africa”, documents that have determined the direction of the development of the new relations of partner of stable and long term equality and mutual benefit in the new century. This meeting not only has been a new departure point for the Chinese-African integral relations towards the new century, but also it has established solid bases to fortify the South-south cooperation and to promote the establishment of the new international and just reasonable order.

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