Chinese President meets Ethiopian PM on bilateral cooperation (2)

（Xinhua）  09:23, June 15, 2013  

China supports Ethiopia to join the World Trade Organization, Xi added.

Desalegn congratulated Xi on the successful launch of the Shenzhou-10 manned spacecraft.

China's development has brought opportunity for developing countries, he said, noting that Ethiopia is committed to achieving national modernization and hopes to learn from the Asian nation.

He suggested that the two countries should enhance cooperation in the areas of infrastructure building, energy and resource exploitation, manufacturing and human resources.

Ethiopia is willing to beef up coordination with China on UN affairs and climate change issues, he said.

Desalegn also praised China's African policy.

He said Africa hopes to enhance the comprehensive partnership with China through the mechanism of the FOCAC, so as to realize common development.

Ethiopia will continue to make contributions in developing Africa-China relations, he said.

Also on Friday, Desalegn met with Chinese top legislator Zhang Dejiang, voicing his commitment to stepping up friendship and cooperation between Ethiopia and China.

The Ethiopian parliament hopes to strengthen its exchange and cooperation with the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislative organ, he added.

Zhang, NPC Standing Committee chairman, echoed Desalegn's call on promoting inter-parliamentary cooperation between the two nations. He proposed the two parliaments intensify their exchanges concerning legislation and supervision, and improve legal systems to help boost strategic national development and cooperation.