Guinea Bissau is grateful for China's support and will continue
to adhere to the one-China policy and back China's reunification
cause, Guinea Bissau President Joao Bernardo Vieira said on
Wednesday.
According to reports reaching Dakar from Bissau, the capital of
Guinea Bissau, Vieira made the remarks in a meeting with visiting
Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing.
During the meeting, Vieira recalled his state visit to China and
participation in the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa
Cooperation two months ago.
The Guinea Bissau-China friendship started in the years when
Guinea Bissau strove for its independence, said Vieira. In the
years that followed, China has offered valuable support to Guinea
Bissau, he said.
Li said that China has always attached great importance to its
relations of friendship and cooperation with Guinea Bissau.
Exchanges of high-level visits between the two have been frequent
since Vieira took office, he said.
Cooperation between the two countries also has been fruitful in
the fields of agriculture, health and infrastructure, he added.
Li said that China appreciates Guinea Bissau's adherence to the
one-China policy and thanks the Guinea Bissau congress for its
adoption of a resolution last year which pledges commitment to the
one China policy and support for China's reunification.
China is willing to join hands with Guinea Bissau to push the
friendship between the two countries to a new high, Li said.
Also on the day, Li held talks with Guinea Bissau's Parliament
Speaker Francisco Benante, Prime Minister Aristides Gomes and
Foreign Minister Antonio Issac Monteiro.
Li arrived in Guinea Bissau after concluding his visit to
Beninand Equatorial Guinea, on a seven-nation African tour which
will also take him to Chad, the Central African Republic, Eritrea
and Botswana.
(Xinhua News Agency January 4, 2007)
