Top legislator Wu Banguo
and visiting French Senate President Christian Poncelet agreed in
Beijing yesterday to improve their regular parliamentary exchange
mechanism for bilateral cooperation in all fields.
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Wu, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's
Congress (NPC), said parliamentary exchange constitutes an
important component of state-to-state relations, and that the NPC
would like to enhance existing relations with the French
senate.
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Poncelet said France hopes to promote friendly exchanges between
the parliaments and local governments of the two countries.
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Wu also expressed the Chinese government's appreciation for
France's "one China" policy.
(Xinhua News Agency September 15, 2005)