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Hu urges efforts to promote world peace
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-06-15 10:31
Greater efforts are needed in face of the new challenges and opportunities,
in promoting world peace and development and in realizing the peaceful
coexistence of all peoples, Chinese President Hu Jintao said in Bucharest
Monday.
Chinese President Hu Jintao is
seen through a camera viewfinder as he addresses the Romanian Parliament
in Bucharest June 14, 2004. Hu is on a three-day visit to Romania, part of
an Eastern Europe and Central Asia tour.
[Reuters] | Peace and development are still the main themes in the current times.
Maintaining world peace and promoting common prosperity is a shared hope of
people the world over, but uncertainties affecting peace and development are
also growing, Hu, who is in Romania for a three-day state visit, said in a
speech at the Romanian Parliament.
To realize the peaceful coexistence of all peoples, the Chinese president
urged increased efforts in three areas:
-- Adhering to the principle of mutual trust and benefit, equality and
coordination and achieving common security for all countries;
-- Sticking to all-around, coordinated and sustainable development and
working for common prosperity for all countries;
-- Respecting cultural diversity and realizing common progress of all
civilizations.
Speaking of China's achievements in its modernization efforts, Hu said China
has made marked progress in boosting productivity and national strength.
Last year, China's gross domestic product (GDP) reached 1.4 trillion US
dollars and its GDP per capita exceeded 1,000 dollars, Hu said, adding that the
country has set the goals for growth in the first two decades of the 21st
century to achieve a GDP of 4 trillion dollars and GDP per capita 3,000 dollars
by 2020.
The Chinese president also noted that this year will mark the 50th
anniversary of the introduction of the five principles of peaceful coexistence,
which have been recognized as the guidelines for developing ties of friendly
cooperation between countries.
The five principles, introduced in June 1954, are mutual respect for
sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, non-interference
in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful
coexistence.
The goal of China's foreign policy is to safeguard world peace and promote
common development, Hu said. He pledged that China will make unremitting efforts
to deepen the friendship between the Chinese and other peoples and promote the
mutually beneficial cooperation between China and the rest of the world.
China will pursue an independent foreign policy, adhere to the road of
peaceful development and develop friendly ties with other countries on the basis
of the five principles of peaceful coexistence, Hu added.
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