President Hu Jintao on Friday sent a congratulatory message to
his Pakistani counterpart Pervez Musharraf on the 51st anniversary
of the founding of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
In the message, President Hu said that the industrious and
ingenious Pakistani people have made brilliant achievements since
the founding of their republic in 1956.
The Pakistani people, appropriately dealing with various
challenges in the volatile domestic and international situation in
the new century, have made fresh achievements in maintaining
national stability, accelerating economic growth, improving
people's living standards and promoting South Asia's peace and
stability, said Hu.
China and Pakistan are good neighbors, and the two peoples have
enjoyed profound traditional friendship, Hu said, adding that with
the Sino-Pakistani ties forging ahead vigorously, cooperation
between the two countries has reaped abundant fruits in various
fields.
Hu said that in the exchange of visits by the two country's
heads of state last year, he and President Musharraf reached a
wide-ranging consensus on advancing the China-Pakistan strategic
partnership, which indicated that the bilateral ties had entered a
fresh development stage.
The Chinese government pursues a good-neighborly diplomatic
policy of "building friendship and partnership with neighboring
countries," cherishes the traditional friendship between the two
countries, said Hu.
Hu said that China is willing to work together with Pakistan to
strengthen bilateral good-neighborly relations, expand mutually
beneficial cooperation, expedite common development and
continuously push the strategic partnership to a new high, so as to
benefit the two countries and the two peoples.
Also on Friday, Premier Wen Jiabao and Foreign Minister Li
Zhaoxing delivered messages of congratulations respectively to
their Pakistani counterparts Shaukat Aziz and Khurshid Kasuri.
(Xinhua News Agency March 23, 2007)
