Chinese president meets world leaders

• Source: Xinhua
• [20:43 September 22 2009]
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Chinese President Hu Jintao has met several heads of state and government leaders after arriving in New York Monday for a UN climate change summit and other UN meetings.

He will also attend a financial summit of the Group of 20 (G20) in Pittsburgh, scheduled for Sept. 24-25.

Hu and his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov met here on Monday and discussed the development of friendly and cooperative ties between the two nations, as well as issues of common concern.

Hu said relations between the two countries were enjoying excellent momentum, with fruitful cooperation in economic, energy, humanities and other fields amid frequent high-level exchanges and steadily strengthening political trust between the two countries.

The two sides supported each other on major issues of mutual concern and cooperated soundly in multilateral frameworks, such as the United Nations, with positive contributions to the promotion of regional and world peace and development, he said.

At the meeting, the Chinese president put forward a five-point proposal on furthering relations between China and Turkmenistan.

Hu also met his Bolivian counterpart, Evo Morales, on Monday and reached consensus with him on further developing the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries.

At his meeting with Morales, Hu said that, thanks to joint efforts by both sides, the two countries had made positive progress in bilateral relations in recent years, and cooperation in fields such as the economy and trade, culture, education, science and technology and sports had been fruitful.

The Chinese president also put forward a four-point proposal for the further development of China-Bolivia relations.