Chinese top legislator Wu Bangguo left Moscow on Tuesday evening for
home after winding up his official goodwill visit to Russia,
Greece, Moldova and Romania and a preliminary Shanghai Cooperation
Organization meeting in Moscow.
Wu, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National
People's Congress (NPC), started his four-nation tour on May 17 at
the invitation of Romanian Senate President Nicolae Vacaroiu and
President Bogdan Olteaanu of Romanian Chamber of Deputies, Moldovan
Parliament Chairman Marian Lupu, Greek Parliament President Anna
Psarouda-Benaki and Russian Federation Council Chairman Sergei
Mironov and State Duma Chairman Boris Gryzlov respectively.
At the end of his visit to Russia, China and Russia issued a
press statement to say that during his visit, Wu met with Russian
President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, held
talks respectively with Mironov and Gryzlov, co-chaired with them
the first meetings of the cooperation committees of China's NPC and
the Federation Council, and of China's NPC and the State Duma
respectively.
The two sides exchanged views and reached consensus on bilateral
relations, exchanges of visits and international issues of common
concern.
Both sides expressed satisfaction over the achievements made by
the parliaments of the two countries in recent years and expressed
the desire to improve the mechanism of cooperation between the
parliaments, expand exchanges at different levels and in different
ways in order to push forward cooperation between the legislative
bodies of the two countries.
(Xinhua News Agency May 31, 2006)