Algeria willing to boost strategic cooperation with China: Bouteflika

ALGIERS, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) — Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said here on Sunday that his country is willing to further develop the strategic cooperation relations with China.

• During his meeting with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, Bouteflika said Algeria is willing to enhance coordination and cooperation with China on international affairs and work with China to boost the strategic cooperation relations.
• Algeria and China always support each other and boast a special partnership based on mutual trust, the president said, adding that the two nations have witnessed progress in substantial cooperation in all areas and close cooperation on major international issues.
• Amid deep evolution of the international situation, both Algeria and China have the political will to further develop bilateral relations, he said.
• The China-Africa Cooperation Forum (CACF) and China-Arab States Cooperation Forum (CASCF) are beneficial to boosting China’s relations with African countries and with Arab countries respectively, he said.
• Algeria would like to help push forward China’s relations with Africa and Arab countries, the president said.
• Bouteflika also said that Algeria firmly adheres to the one-China policy and supports China in its reunification, noting that Algeria’s stand in this regard will never change.
• The Chinese foreign minister said over the 51 years since China and Algeria established diplomatic ties, the two peoples have been supporting, trusting and cooperating with each other.
• Since entering the new century, Chinese President Hu Jintao and President Bouteflika have exchanged visits and established the strategic cooperation relations, bringing China-Algeria relations to a period of best and quickest development in the history, Yang said.
• China highly values Sino-Algerian traditional friendship and is willing to boost friendly communication, expand mutual beneficial cooperation, enhance discussion and coordination on regional and international affairs and enrich the scope of bilateral relations to push forward the strategic cooperation relations to bear more fruit, Yang said.
• He said, in recent years, the two countries have enjoyed frequent exchange of high-ranking visits and growing political mutual trust and have worked together to safeguard the rights and interests of the developing countries on international affairs such as the climate change.
• Moreover, the substantial cooperation in economic and trade and infrastructure construction fields have been deepened continuously, and the exchange and cooperation within the frameworks of the CACF and CASCF have been expanded, said the top Chinese diplomat.
• Also in the day, Yang held talks with his Algerian counterpart Mourad Medelci on bilateral relations as well as on major global and regional issues of common concern. Yang arrived in Algeria on Sunday on a two-day visit.