Foreign and Military Affairs

China, Senegal agree to further bilateral relations

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-01-16 14:57

DAKAR - Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu and Senegalese Prime Minister Souleymane Ndene Ndiaye have agreed that the two countries should further strengthen bilateral relations and two-way exchanges in various fields.

During their meeting here on Friday, Hui said since the resumption of diplomatic ties between both countries five years ago, bilateral ties have been developing fast in an all-round way.

Over the past five years, both countries have maintained close high-level contacts, deepened mutual understanding, consolidated mutual political trust, maintained close coordination and cooperation in international affairs and extended each other support on issues that concern their major interests, Hui added.

China is very delighted to see that both countries have made remarkable achievements in economic and trade cooperation, as well as in their win-win cooperation in agriculture, fishery, telecommunications and infrastructure.

China is willing to continue working with Senegal to tap potential for bilateral cooperation to benefit the people of both countries, Hui said.

For his part, Ndiaye said over the past five years, the Senegal-China relations have been advancing with big strides and the two countries have implemented a series of cooperation projects, becoming one of the important examples of China-Africa cooperation.

Senegal is sincerely grateful for China's great support for its economic and social development and is willing to work with China to sum up their cooperation experience so as to further promote bilateral ties, Ndiaye said.

During the meeting, the two sides reached broad consensus regarding the continuous development of bilateral ties.

After the meeting, Hui and Ndiaye attended a signing ceremony of a number of bilateral cooperation agreements.