Copenhagen meeting 'mystery'
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March 15, 2010, Monday
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THE attitude of China and its people toward foreign countries and how the nation acted on the international stage were hot topics yesterday when Premier Wen Jiabao met the media in Beijing.
China remained a developing county despite its achievements, Wen said.
It pursued peaceful development and advocated international cooperation but would not hesitate to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Wen was first asked at the press conference after the National People's Congress' annual session to comment on his "decision not to attend a key meeting" before the Copenhagen climate change summit last year and the Chinese delegation to the Copenhagen conference being perceived as "arrogant."
Wen said he and the Chinese delegation hadn't received any invitation to a small-scale meeting between several countries' leaders on December 17.
"We haven't received any explanation ... it's still a mystery to me," Wen said.
He said he learned from a European country's leader, at a banquet, about the meeting that would be held later in the evening and saw China was on the list of the talks' participating countries.
He immediately told the Chinese delegation to check and confirmed that no notification had been received. Despite this, he sent Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei to the meeting.
He voiced dissatisfaction about the snub against China: "It still perplexes me why some people keep trying to make an issue about China (in this regard)."
Wen also said China welcomed foreign investors to do business in the country in line with Chinese laws.
And he admitted a shortcoming on his part. "My contacts with foreign investors are not close enough," Wen said.
He pledged to exchange more ideas with foreign investors in the remaining three years of his tenure.
China remained a developing county despite its achievements, Wen said.
It pursued peaceful development and advocated international cooperation but would not hesitate to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Wen was first asked at the press conference after the National People's Congress' annual session to comment on his "decision not to attend a key meeting" before the Copenhagen climate change summit last year and the Chinese delegation to the Copenhagen conference being perceived as "arrogant."
Wen said he and the Chinese delegation hadn't received any invitation to a small-scale meeting between several countries' leaders on December 17.
"We haven't received any explanation ... it's still a mystery to me," Wen said.
He said he learned from a European country's leader, at a banquet, about the meeting that would be held later in the evening and saw China was on the list of the talks' participating countries.
He immediately told the Chinese delegation to check and confirmed that no notification had been received. Despite this, he sent Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei to the meeting.
He voiced dissatisfaction about the snub against China: "It still perplexes me why some people keep trying to make an issue about China (in this regard)."
Wen also said China welcomed foreign investors to do business in the country in line with Chinese laws.
And he admitted a shortcoming on his part. "My contacts with foreign investors are not close enough," Wen said.
He pledged to exchange more ideas with foreign investors in the remaining three years of his tenure.
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