The Asia and Pacific countries should beef up regional
cooperation and make concerted efforts to improve their
infrastructure development, said Cui Tiankai in Jakarta on Monday,
who headed the Chinese delegation to the United Nations Economy and
Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) meeting.
Cui, who is the assistant to Chinese Foreign Minister, made the
statement at the Combined Opening Session of the Ministerial
Segment of the 62nd Session of the UNESCAP.
Work could be done in four ways, which included dialogue
enhancement and experience exchange, platform establishment and
cooperation between government and enterprise, channels development
and income rise, as well as policy coordination and network
connection, said Cui.
In addition, he introduced to the delegates China's 11th
five-year program for national economy and social development,
which featured science, harmony and coordination, as well as
further improvement of people's quality of life and more
opportunities for all the countries in the world.
While improving its own development, China pursued mutual
benefit and win-win outcome and strived for global and regional
cooperation in order to realize common prosperity of all the
countries in the world, he added.
The UNESCAP's 62nd session is held here from April 6 to 12 with
its major topic as "Enhancing Cooperation in Infrastructure
Development, including that Related with Disaster Management."
The session was attended by some 600 delegates from 62 countries
in the Asia-Pacific region.
(Xinhua News Agency April 11, 2006)
