Gerrman Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer is in Beijing to stress Berlin's ambition to gain a permanent seat on the UN Security Council during his two-day visit to China.

Fischer said promotion of renewable energy and the crisis in Sudan would also be high on the agenda in meetings with his counterpart Li Zhaoxing and Premier Wen Jiabao.

Fischer said that Germany, India and China all believe in a multilateral approach to global power and that this made an expansion of the UN Security Council a logical step.

Fischer arrived from New Delhi, where he and Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh declared their mutual backing for a bid by both countries for permanent seats on the UN Security Council.

Source: CRI