China, Kazakhstan vow to work more closely on Int’l affairs

Beijing(China)—China and Kazakhstan on Wednesday pledged to expand their cooperation on international affairs as Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev paid a state visit to Beijing.
Their pledge came out of the document titled “China-Kazakhstan Cooperation Strategy for the 21st Century” signed between Chinese President Hu Jintao and Nazarbayev Wednesday afternoon. The 13-page document covers China-Kazakhstan cooperation on politics, economy, security, culture and international affairs. Earlier, Hu and Nazarbayev held about-90-minute talks in the Great Hall of the People. “China and Kazakhstan are deeply convinced that the United Nations (UN) play a crucial role in safeguarding world peace and security,” the document said.
It said the two countries think it is necessary to reform the UN, but oppose any hasty measures. The two countries maintained that the current and new international and regional disputes be resolved by political and diplomatic means. “It is imperative to step up anti-terror cooperation under the UN framework,” the document said.
China and Kazakhstan reiterated to intensify the international nuclear non-proliferation mechanism under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the document said. The two countries also vowed to make unremitting efforts to develop the cooperation on security, economy and other fields under the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. They said in the document they would like to work with Central Asian countries to expand cooperation on various fields, particularly on fighting the terrorism, extremism and separatism.
Apart from “China-Kazakhstan Cooperation Strategy for the 21st Century”, Hu and Nazarbayev also sign 12 documents on economy, energy, finance, education, transportation. Nazarbayev was in Beijing for a five-day state visit, the first since he won a re-election last December. Nazarbayev is scheduled to meet with top legislator Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao. The visit will also take him to Hong Kong and Macao. The document “China-Kazakhstan Cooperation Strategy for the 21st Century” was signed by Chinese President Hu Jintao and visiting Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev after their talks.
The 13-page Chinese version document covers a wide range of such cooperative fields on politics, economy, international cooperation, security, culture. Besides the document, China and Kazakhstan also inked 12 agreements and protocols on energy, finance and economy. “The two sides will continue to carry out cooperation between law-enforcement departments of the two countries to fight against drug smuggling, weaponry and explosives trafficking, money-laundering and transnational organized crimes,” the document says. “The two sides will take measures to crack down on illegal immigration and perfect the legal basis in this regard,” the document says. According to the document, the two countries also vowed to fight against cross-border crimes, terrorism, separatism and extremism, stressing their security cooperation will not target a third party,
“To safeguard security when contingencies occur, the two governments are required to enhance constructive dialogue on disaster prevention and relief and hold joint disaster-relief exercise aimed to dispel environmental threats within the framework of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO),” the document says. China and Kazakhstan are members of the SCO, a regional organization which also groups Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
The two neighboring countries also tackled their concerns over preventing pollution of transboundary rivers in the document, saying they will ensure reasonable use and protection of water and biological resources in the rivers.” It is Nazarbayev’s first state visit to China since he won a re-election last December. During Nazarbayev’s five-day China visit, Chinese top legislator Wu Bangguo and Premier Wen Jiabao will also hold talks or meet with him respectively.

—Daily Mail, People’s Daily news exchange item