China for friendly ties with India

BEIJING, SEPT. 30. China is confident of building a friendly and cooperative relationship with India on the basis of the `panchsheel agreement' and wants to intensify bilateral exchanges to promote mutual trust and confidence, a senior Chinese Minister has said.

``China cherishes the traditional friendship it has with India and hopes to develop healthy, steady and friendly neighbouring relations with New Delhi on the basis of the five principles of peaceful co-existence,'' the Minister of the State Council Information Office, Mr. Zhao Qizheng, told PTI.

``We hope to continue and intensify exchanges and cooperation in political, economic, cultural and other fields, especially in the press,'' Mr. Zhao, who is in charge of China's state-controlled media, said. ``The two countries have a sound foundation for developing a friendly and cooperative relationship,'' Mr. Zhao said.

He stressed that friendly and cooperative Sino-Indian relations ``embody not only the common desires and fundamental interests of the people of the two countries, but are also conducive to the peace and stability of Asia and the world as a whole''.

- PTI

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