Marian Lupu's Interview and Upcoming Wu Bangguo Visit |
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Written by Nikola Sunday, 21 May 2006 |
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The chairman of the Chinese Permament Committeee of the National Assembly Popular Representatives, Wu Bangguo, will pay a visit to Moldova at the end of the current week. This is the first visit at such a level of representation of China's legislature since the proclamation of Moldova's independence. Learn about the importance of the visit by the high Chinese guest from an interview given by Moldovan Speaker Marian Lupu. Question: The chairman of the Chinese parliament will stay in Moldova during three days, which is showed by the visit's agenda's complexity. What aspects will be discussed within the meetings, and what decisions are set to be adopted? Answer: For more time, and with good reason, China is considered one of the most influential geopolitical actors, a superpower with a quite specific model of development. Another important aspect deals with the fact that Beijing consistently supports Chisinau's efforts to solve the Transnistrian problem. Our visions about the settlement principles coincide, and these positions of the Chinese authorities cannot be underestimated. On this ground, all the spectrum of relations with the People's Republic of China (RPC) is very important for Moldova. I would like to remind the fact that RPC was one of the first states which recognized our country's sovereignty, and opened a diplomatic mission in Chisinau. The Beijing official authorities show a constant interest to develop the cooperation with Chisinau, which has been characterized by a special dynamics over the last years. Obviously, it is particularly important for us that RPC describes the parliamentary dimension as one of the key elements of our cooperation, and the wish of the chairman of the Chinese legislative forum to visit our country for the first time since Moldova has proclaimed its independence is a quite eloquent proof in this respect. I want to say that the parliamentary friedship group with the People's Republic of China was set up last year, to which activities we attach a special importance. Such a level of visits shows the priority of the interstate relations, and therefore they are prepared quite thoroughly. Given that it is the first one at this level, the visit's agenda is quite rich. I will have an one-hour meeting with Wu Bangguo, during wich we will discuss about the prospects for developing the parliamentary relations, taking into account our common interests. An agreement on economic assistance between Moldova and RPC will also be signed at the parliament, after which Wu Bangguo will write an inscription in the parliament's Honorary Guests Book. The visit's agenda also includes meetings with Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin and Prime Minister Vasile Tarlev, the visiting of several enterprises and social units, a meeting with the Chinese diaspora. In my opinion, the prospects for cooperation in the economic and trade fields are very interesting. Our Chinese partners show a special interest in Moldova, including the domestic market, no matter how limited it would seem at the first sight. The appearance of a series of specialized trade centres, the starting of the works of Chinese business people building a big supermarket in Chisinau come to support this conclusion. Another eloquent example is the launch of the strategical partnership between the Moldtelecom stock company and the Huawei Technologies Chinese telecommunications concern. Reciprocally, many of our business people have oriented to the East, and as far as I know, the first contacts in this respect were more than successful. It is not at all by accident that the agenda of the forthcoming visit by the Chinese delegation includes a trip to Milestii Mici - a unit which has been declared national patrimony. We are sure that the country's wine-making traditions, which this enterprise represents, will make an unforgetable impression on our Chinese colleagues. As a result, it will be much easier for the Moldovan wine-makers to persuade the Chinese partners of the opportunities offered by our wines acceptance. Undoubdtedly, all the spectrum of subjects which would represent the Moldovan-Chinese relations will be debated in detail within the visit. I am sure that, in this way, the development of the relations between our states will be considerably boosted, and their strategical character, if you wish, will be strengthened. Question: How do you describe the social dimension of the relations between the two countries? Answer: This channel of our relatons shows a dynamic increase too. During more years, there has been an intense exchange of students between the two countries, which, in fact, is nothing else but a cultural interpenetration and interaction. Once they return home, the Chinese young people inevitably become bearers, and to a certain extent, messengers of the Moldovan language and traditions. I have no doubds that, for many of these students, Moldova has become the second home, which they will remember with much warmth. Obviously, as time passes, some of these young people will involve in the RPC state structures, will determine their place in other fields. Or, this fact already represents a solid basis for the subsequent development of the political relations, which are nothing else but contacts between people with leadership offices. To the same extent, this phenomenon is also valid for the Moldovan students who study in RPC. During a long period of time, China has been hosted representatives of Moldova's mass media, and fully covered the expenses related to their stay in RPC. This action of notorious prospect allows the journalists, and through them the public as well, to know better the phenomenon of China, this country's traditions. I think that this experience is worth being taken over, while establishing a permanent mechanism of organising visits by Chinese journalists, which would make Moldova known for their readers and TV viewers. I cannot leave without attention the financial assistance the Chinese authorities give to Moldova. Last year, for example, due to the funds allocated by RPC, the Chisinau-based prosthesis centre was restored and endowed with performing equipment, and the Chinese embassy in Moldova regularly participates in the social public events for Moldova. Q: You visited China within a governmental delegation several years ago. Which were your impressions following this visit? A: China, undoubtedly, is a great country, as it is for good reason appreciated with the respectful name of "Asian tiger", which was given as a result of fulfilling a great economic and industrial leap in a short time. Besides an efficient management at the state level, based on individual principles of economic development, which are entirely different from those followed by other countries, and on clear-sightedness in the foreign policy, the progress made by China was due, to a great extent, to the Chinese unique diligence. I think that namely this feature of character gets our nations closer, and even make them related to each other. www.moldpres.md
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