China Willing To Promote
Ties With Costa Rica
China attaches great
importance to its ties
with Costa Rica and is
ready to work with the
Central American country
to promote the stable,
sustainable and healthy
development of bilateral
relations, a leading
Chinese lawmaker said in
San José on Monday.
Uyunqimg, vice
chairwoman of the
Standing Committee of
China's National
People's Congress (NPC),
the legislative body of
China, made the remark
at a meeting with Costa
Rican vice-president,
Laura Chinchilla.
She appreciated Costa
Rica's sympathies and
aid offered to China
after a devastating
earthquake struck
China's southwestern
province of Sichuan on
May 12.
Since the two countries
established diplomatic
relations about a year
ago bilateral ties have
undergone rapid, healthy
and orderly development,
with the mutual trust
between the two
governments deepened,
trade and economic
cooperation expanded and
exchanges in such fields
as humanities, science
and technology, energy
and finance enhanced,
Uyunqimg said, adding
that both sides have
also maintained good
coordination in
international and
regional affairs.
Costa Rica broke off
diplomatic ties with
Taiwan to establish ties
with China.
The NPC and the Costa
Rican legislature have
also kept close and
friendly exchanges, and
contributed to the
development of bilateral
relations, she said.
Chinchilla, for her
part, reiterated that
Costa Rica will
steadfastly pursue the
one-China policy. She
expressed her
satisfaction with the
development of bilateral
relations and thanked
China for its assistance
to her country.
Costa Rica is the last
leg of Uyunqimg's
goodwill tour to Latin
America, which has taken
her to Chile and
Venezuela.
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