Premier Wen meets Japanese PM, Pakistani PM

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-08-08 19:12

BEIJING - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met here Friday afternoon with Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda Yasuo and Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani who are here to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) meets with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda in the Zhongnanhai leaders compound in Beijing on August 8, 2008. [Agencies]

In a meeting with Fukuda, Wen urged the two sides to seize the hard-earned opportunities to renew the China-Japan strategic and mutually beneficial relations.

"China is ready to maintain high-level visits with Japan, jointly respond to global challenges, deepen economic and trade cooperation and enhance mutual understanding between the two peoples, to strive for China-Japan friendship from generation to generation," said Wen.

Fukuda said Japan was devoted to deepening the strategic and mutually beneficial relations with China and will earnestly implement the important consensus between the two sides, to promote the comprehensive development of bilateral ties.

While meeting with Gilani, Wen said China and Pakistan share all-weather friendship and all-round cooperation, "the two countries are good neighbors, good partners and good brothers," he said.

He added that China will make joint efforts with Pakistan to further promote the neighborly friendship and reciprocal cooperation to raise the level of China-Pakistan strategic partnership.

Gilani said to develop the friendly and cooperative ties with China is the consensus of Pakistan's political circles and parties.

Pakistan hopes to strengthen cooperation with China and enhance friendly exchanges, in a bid to inherit the traditional friendship between the two countries.

Wen also met with six other foreign honored guests to attend the opening ceremony the Beijing Olympic Games, including Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Djibouti Dileita Mohamed Dileita, Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, Prime Minister of Myanmar Thein Sein, Prime Minister of Chad Youssouf Saleh Abbas, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Vladimirovic Putin and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

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