Xi tells Suu Kyi of common interests
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“CHINA and Myanmar are close, friendly neighbors,” President Xi Jinping said when he met a delegation from Myanmar’s National League for Democracy, headed by Aung San Suu Kyi, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing yesterday.
The traditional friendship between China and Myanmar has not changed in the 65 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, Xi said.
“[China and Myanmar] have become a community of common interests and common destiny sharing weal and woe,” Xi said.
Xi said China supports Myanmar’s efforts to safeguard its independence and territorial integrity, respects its development path and backs the process of reconciliation in the country.
He said China will firmly cement friendship with Myanmar and boost cooperation.
“We hope and believe that the Myanmar side will also maintain a consistent stance on China-Myanmar relationships and be committed to advancing friendly ties, no matter how its domestic situation changes,” the president, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said.
“I hope this visit will help deepen your understanding on China and the CPC, which will contribute to our mutual understanding and trust, and lay a better foundation for the party-to-party and state-to-state relationship,” Xi said.
Suu Kyi said friendly ties between Myanmar and China as neighbors were of great importance.
The NLD admired China’s remarkable achievements under the leadership of the CPC, and hoped to further strengthen the two parties’ relationship.
On Wednesday, China’s foreign ministry said China was hoping that Suu Kyi’s visit will bolster “mutual understanding and trust.”
Wang Jiarui, head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, met Suu Kyi on Wednesday. State Councilor Yang Jiechi and Shen Yueyue, vice chairwoman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee and president of the All-China Women’s Federation, met her yesterday.
During her visit, which ends on Sunday, Suu Kyi is due to visit Shanghai and the southwestern province of Yunnan, according to the Beijing Youth Daily.
The newspaper did not say where in Yunnan she would go, but part of the province bordering Myanmar is where ethnic fighting has occurred.
Suu Kyi became one of the world’s most famous political prisoners during house arrest for much of the 1990s and 2000s because of her opposition to military rule.
She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.
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