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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao shakes hands
with Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo during their meeting in
Manila, Jan. 15, 2007. (Xinhua Photo/Liu Weibing)
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MANILA,
Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Philippine President Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo Monday reached a wide range of consensus in their talks on
developing relations between China and the Philippines.
They also attended signing ceremony of a number of
cooperation agreements by officials of the two countries at the Malacanang
presidential palace here on Monday evening.
The two leaders agreed that China and the Philippines
should enlarge friendly exchanges at all levels, and strengthen exchanges and
cooperation between executive government, parliament, political parties and the
military.
They agreed that the two countries should push
forward strategic cooperation and work out as soon as possible a common plan of
action for Sino-Philippine strategic cooperation.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo review Philippine honour
guards during the welcoming ceremony in Manila, Jan. 15, 2007.
(Xinhua Photo/Liu Weibing)
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The two leaders acknowledged the need to strengthen
cooperation in railway, electric power and telecommunications in the
Philippines, with China ready to provide more preferential treatment to the
Philippines in its financing infrastructure projects.
They agreed that the two countries have a wide
perspective to carry out agricultural cooperation in which the Philippines
welcomes China to support its agro-modernization process through providing aid
in introducing agro-products, providing agro-technology, training of
agro-professionals and upgrading agriculture equipment.
The two leaders also agreed to encourage financial
cooperation between the two countries, including gradual realization of free
exchange of currencies of the two countries. They believed that the two
countries should carry out cooperation in disaster rescue and prevention fields,
and help each other upgrade the capacity of disaster reduction and prevention.
On the issue of the South China Sea, the two leaders
said China and the Philippines fully back common development of the South China
Sea and encourage trilateral cooperation by China, the Philippines and Vietnam
in maritime seismological research in the South China Sea in order to let it
obtain substantial results in an early time.
On the issue of security, the two leaders expressed
their wish that the two countries deepen defense and security cooperation,
strengthen consultations and coordination in non-traditional security fields of
fighting terrorism, drugs and transnational crimes.
They agreed that the two countries encourage
exchanges and cooperation among their cities, people-to-people exchanges, and
cooperation in tourism and education.
They also said that China and the Philippines will
seek closer consultation and coordination over major international issues.
The deal signed by the two countries included a
framework agreement on expanding and deepening bilateral economic and trade
cooperation, an agreement on economic and technical cooperation, a framework
agreement on provision of concessional loan by China to the Philippines, an
agreement on protection of cultural heritage, and three agreements on China
providing loan and contracting for building two railway lines in the
Philippines.
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