China and Mozambique issued a joint communique on Thursday on bilateral cooperation and international affairs of common concern.

The communique was released after Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Mozambican counterpart Armando Emilio Guebuza held talks in Maputo.

The two leaders exchanged views and reached a broad consensus on implementation of the results reached at the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), bilateral cooperative relations and international and regional issues of common concern, the communique said.

The two nations hailed the traditional friendship, the sound development of bilateral ties since the establishment of diplomatic relations 31 years ago, and the cooperation in economic and social fields, according to the communique.

Mozambique reaffirmed its commitment to the one-China policy, and its opposition to "Taiwan independence" in any form, including "de jure Taiwan independence," and to Taiwan's accession to any international organization of sovereign states, it said.

Hu arrived here earlier in the day from South Africa for a two-day state visit to Mozambique.

He is on the seventh leg of his eight-nation trip to Africa, which has already taken him to Cameroon, Liberia, Sudan, Zambia, Namibia, and South Africa. He will also visit the Seychelles.

Source: Xinhua