On the afternoon of December 12, 2005, Chinese President Hu Jintao held talks in the Great Hall of the People with Jordanian King Abdullah II, who was here in China on a working visit. Both heads of state agreed to further mutually beneficial cooperation and push bilateral friendly cooperative relations for sound and in-depth development.
Hu appreciated Abdullah II for resolutely pursuing the one-China policy and attaching great importance to developing relations with China. He said that in recent years bilateral relations have been developing steadily. The bilateral trade volume has reached one new height after another and the scale of two-way investment has been continuously expanded. Both sides have witnessed an increasing of exchanges and cooperation in the areas of culture, education and tourism.
Hu indicated that both countries are developing nations and both peoples have maintained long-term friendship. To further strengthen bilateral mutually beneficial cooperation conforms to the fundamental interest of the two peoples. China would like to make joint efforts with Jordan in the following aspects. First, to maintain exchange of high-level visits in the political area. Both sides should strengthen dialogue and exchanges between their parliaments and government agencies, encourage friendly exchanges between their young people and women's groups and show mutual understanding and support on major principled issues involving the interest of their respective countries. Second, to further expand trade scale in the economic and trade area and focus on expanding cooperation in the areas of investment, technology, human resources training and labor. Third, to keep closer coordination and collaboration in international and regional affairs and promote world and regional peace and stability in the multilateral area. Both sides can also conduct exchanges and cooperation in a broad area in various forms within the framework of the Forum on Cooperation between China and Arab States.
Abdullah II indicated that bilateral friendly relations were personally created by the older generations of leaderships of both sides and the Jordanian people cherish friendship with the Chinese people and hope to continuously expand friendly cooperative relations with China. He said that Jordan fully agrees with President Hu's proposition on furthering bilateral relations in politics, economy & trade and multilateral area and wound like to actively coordinate with China to implement the consensus and push bilateral exchanges and cooperation in the areas of politics, economy, culture, education and energy for continuous development. He also reaffirmed that Jordan resolutely pursues the one-China policy.
Both heads of state also exchanged views on bilateral cooperation in counter-terrorism. Hu once again strongly condemned the terrorist attack incident in Amman, capital of Jordan, not long ago, expressed sympathy and solicitude over Jordan's heavy casualties and property losses caused by this incident and thanked Abdullah II and the Jordanian side for their care and great assistance in China's handling of the matters arising from the attack that hit the delegation of China's National Defense University. Hu reaffirmed that the Chinese government resolutely opposes all forms of terrorism and would like to work with the international community including Jordan to strengthen cooperation in counter-terrorism, jointly combat terrorism and safeguard world and regional peace, security and stability.
Abdullah II indicated that the Jordanian government adheres to the counter-terrorist position expounded in the Amman Declaration and would like to strengthen coordination and collaboration with China, jointly combat terrorism and safeguard world peace.
Both sides also exchanged views on the situation in the Middle East and other issues of common interest. Abdullah II emphasized that Jordan attaches great importance to China's important role in the Middle East peace process and other international and regional affairs.
Following the talks, the two leaders attended the signing ceremony of the agreement on economic and technological cooperation between both governments and other bilateral cooperation documents.
State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan, Member of the Central Military Commission & Chief of the PLA General Staff Liang Guanglie and other officials attended the talks.