Top Chinese legislator arrives in Seychelles for official visit

Special report: Top legislator Wu Bangguo visits five African

nations

Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing

Committee of China's National People's Congress(NPC), the country's top

legislature, is greeted upon his arrival in Victoria, capital of the

Indian Ocean archipelago, Nov. 12, 2008. (Chinese media/Liu Weibing)


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VICTORIA, Nov. 12 (Chinese media) -- At the invitation of

Seychellois President James Alix Michel and Speaker of the country's National

Assembly Patrick Herminie, Chinese top legislator Wu Bangguo arrived here

Wednesday afternoon to begin an official visit to the country on the final leg

of his five-nation African tour.

In a written statement released at the airport upon

his arrival, Wu, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's

Congress, highlighted the rapid development of the China-Seychelles relations in

the past 32 years since the two nations forged the diplomatic relations, noting

that the bilateral cooperation between the two nations have brought concrete

benefit to the two peoples.

Wu Bangguo (L), chairman of the Standing

Committee of China's National People's Congress(NPC), the country's top

legislature, is greeted by James Alix Michel, president of the Republic of

Seychelles, upon his arrival in Victoria, capital of the Indian Ocean

archipelago, Nov. 12, 2008. (Chinese media/Liu Weibing)
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"I expect to meet with President Michel and Speaker

Herminie to exchange views on issues of common concern," Wu said in the

statement, calling on the two sides to develop "new ways and new approches" to

expand cooperation so as to boost the ties between the two nations to a higher

level.

Wu arrived here after he concluded his official visit

to Madagascar. In addition to Madagascar, his Africa tour had already taken him

to Algeria, Gabon and Ethiopia.