CHINA / Nigeria
Hu meets leaders of Nigeria's National Assembly
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-04-28 09:06
ABUJA -- Visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday met with
Kenechukwu Nnamani, President of the Senate, and Aminu Masari, Speaker of
the House of Representatives of Nigeria's National Assembly.
During the meeting, they exchanged views on enhancing the two countries'
relations, as well as expanding activities between legislative
organizations of the two countries.
Hu, who had arrived here earlier on April 26 from Morocco,
saidSino-Nigerian relations were undergoing comprehensive development,and
that the two countries had reached a consensus on building a strategic
partnership with mutual political trust, economic reciprocity and mutual
assistance in international affairs.
The two countries had made great progress in cooperation in areas
including agriculture, energy, electricity, infrastructural construction
and telecommunications, Hu said, adding that Nigeria had become one of
the China's most important economic and trade partners in Africa.
Hu stressed that China was willing to work together with Nigeria to take
the two countries' strategic partnership to a new level. He added that
his government hoped the two countries' legislatures would continue their
exchanges and increase personnelexchanges.
The two leaders of Nigeria's National Assembly said the Nigerian people
warmly welcomed the president's visit, adding thatthe National Assembly
would facilitate cooperation between two countries' enterprises in terms
of legal issues, and that they were willing to enhance exchanges between
legislatures and boost the strategic partnership between the two
countries.
Nigeria is the fourth leg of Hu's five-nation tour which has already
taken him to the United States, Saudi Arabia and Morocco, and will also
take him to Kenya.
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