Khaleda to visit China

[akash57]

Khaleda meets Chinese party leaders

Dhaka, Dec 20 (bdnews24.com) — BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has met Chinese communist party leaders at the Great Hall of Beijing.

BNP vice-chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury, a member of Khaleda's entourage, told bdnews24.com over telephone that Chinese vice-president Xi Jingpin led the Chinese communist party leaders at the meeting at 4pm Bangladesh time on Monday.

A cultural programme was organised in her honour afterwards.

Chowdhury said the opposition leader's meeting with communist party leaders was focused on some bilateral issues of common concern of the two countries.

"Emphasis was made on developing the relationship between the two parties," he added.

Earlier Khaleda attended a lunch hosted by the Communist Party of China.

Khaleda left Dhaka on Saturday for China at the invitation of the Communist Party.

She took a break on the way to see her younger son Arafat Rahman Coco who has long been living in Bangkok for medical treatment.

Khaleda will return on Dec 23, after another stopover in Bangkok.

Coco, along with Khaleda, was arrested in connection with GATCO graft case in September, 2007. During the tenure of the military-installed caretaker government in May, 2008, he left for Thailand for medical treatment on parole.

On Sunday afternoon, Khaleda visited the Olympic Bird Nest Stadium in Beijing. After she reached Beijing, she was welcomed by communist party international section's director general Yun Shidong and other leaders.

Khaleda's last visit to China was in 2006 as prime minister. She had visited there in 1998 as the opposition leader.

Khaleda meets Chinese party leaders | Politics | bdnews24.com

 

[Brotherhood]

China to bolster cooperation with Bangladesh, says Chinese vice president - People's Daily Online December 20, 2010

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (R) meets with Khaleda Zia, former prime minister of Bangladesh, in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 20, 2010. (Xinhua/Ma Zhancheng)

China will expand substantial exchanges and cooperation with Bangladesh to strengthen their comprehensive partnership of cooperation, Vice President Xi Jinping said Monday.

Xi made the pledge during an hour-long meeting with Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, who is heading a delegation of the Nationalist Party, in Beijing.

Xi, a Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, hailed the traditional friendship, the political mutual trust, and the economic and cultural cooperation between China and Bangladesh.

"It's a constant policy of the Chinese Party and government to consolidate and develop relations with Bangladesh, as part of China's good-neighborly and friendly foreign policy," Xi told Zia, who is on her eighth trip to China.

Xi said the CPC valued friendly ties with all parties in Bangladesh and expected the two sides to enhance exchanges between their leaderships and young politicians.

Saying China was a valuable friend and partner, Zia voiced support for expanded cooperation in such sectors as transport, energy and manufacturing.

The Nationalist Party would abide by the one-China policy and oppose interference in China's domestic affairs by any external force in any form, she told Xi.

Source: Xinhua

 

[Md Akmal]

But AL is a communist sympathetic party as well? Isn't it? Just wonder no flame please!

The Chinese appear to be on a drive of breaking taboos..invited cheif of islamic party from Pakistan, now BNP from BD, stapled visas for Indians??

AL was pro-Indian and pro-Russian ! and now pro-India and pro-America ! They never were pro-Chinese.

 

[eastwatch]

AL was pro-Indian and pro-Russian ! and now pro-India and pro-America ! They never were pro-Chinese.

Even if it is true what you are saying about AL, then it is also true that AL govt is not trying to keep a distance from China. It is wooing China to participate in the biggest project in BD, i.e, deep-sea port with about $10 billion price tag. It is also purchasing military hardwares as usual from China.