TIRANA, September 6 -- Albania attaches great importance to its relations with China and is willing to lift friendship between the two countries to a new level, the country's President said on Thursday.
"Albania and China are enjoying fundamental traditional friendship. With our joint efforts we hope to deepen the bilateral relations between our two countries," Bamir Topi told a visiting delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
In his meeting with the delegation led by Wang Jiarui, head of the international department of the CPC central committee, Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha has stressed that Albania likes to strengthen cooperation between the two countries.
"Albania wants to strengthen its cooperation with China in various fields, such as politics, trade, energy and infrastructure, " Berisha said, adding that the Albanian Democratic Party, which he chairs, has a desire to keep contacts with the Communist Party of China.
Wang said both the CPC and the Chinese government cherish the traditional friendship between the two countries, and that the CPC hopes to strengthen its contacts and cooperation with Albanian political parties, so as to further bilateral relations between the countries.
Topi and Beisha reaffirmed that Albania steadfastly supports China's great cause of peaceful reunification with Taiwan, and wished the upcoming 17th Congress of the Communist Party of China a great success.
The Chinese delegation visits Albania at the invitation of Albania's ruling Democratic Party. They will head to Turkmenistan on the last leg of their five-nation tour which had taken them to Tajikistan, Georgia and Macedonia.
