Chinese, Indonesian Presidents Discuss Bilateral Relations

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Chinese, Indonesian Presidents Discuss Bilateral Relations

Chinese President Jiang Zemin exchanged views in Los Cabos Saturday with his Indonesian counterpart Megawati Soekarnoputri on ways to further develop friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation between their countries.

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Chinese President Jiang Zemin exchanged views here Saturday with his Indonesian counterpart Megawati Soekarnoputri on ways to further develop friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation between their countries.

The meeting was the third between the two presidents in just one year. They had met at the last Economic Leaders Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum held in Shanghai, China in October 2001 and during Megawati's visit to China in March this year.

In their meeting at this seaside resort in northern Mexico where they both are attending the two-day APEC Economic Leaders Meeting that opened Saturday, Jiang pointed out that developing a long-term and stable relationship between China and Indonesia, both of them being major developing countries in Asia, conforms tothe fundamental interests of their people.

"We attach great importance to friendly relations with Indonesia," Jiang said. "Both China and Indonesia have a large population, with enormous market potential. As the economies of our two countries are highly complementary to each other, there are broad prospects for them to cooperate in economy and trade."

Although the growth of both the world economy and regional economies has slowed down in recent years, Jiang said, economic and trade relations between China and Indonesia have witnessed a steady growth.

"We believe that with concerted efforts from both sides, China and Indonesia will continue to make great achievements in their cooperation in economy, trade and other fields," Jiang said.

Speaking on the same occasion, Megawati said that friendly relations between Indonesia and China have developed smoothly, and in particular many concrete projects between the two countries have been carried out in recent years.

She said that in the future, the two countries can further expand their cooperation in transportation, fishery, agriculture and other fields so as to promote a full-scale development of their bilateral relationship.

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