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On February 4, 2004, visiting Chinese
President Hu Jintao said in Algeria that China has been and will continue
to be a reliable friend to developing countries, and China is willing
to promote friendly cooperation in all areas with developing countries,
based on deep traditional friendship and wide common interests.
For a long time, China has carried
out fruitful cooperation with developing countries in all fields, adhering
to the principle of equality, and mutual benefit, and paying attention
to actual effect, long-term cooperation and common development. Consolidating
and developing unity and cooperation with developing countries is the
foundation of China's foreign policy. President Hu pointed out that developing
countries account for 90 percent of the world's total population and 84
percent of the UN members' aggregate. So, developing countries are of
great significance in dealing with international affairs, especially in
the process to build a fair and rational new international political and
economic order. It is safe to say that there will be no world peace if
there is no stability in developing countries and there will be no worldwide
prosperity if there is no rejuvenation of developing countries, he added.
The Chinese president pointed out
it needs wide international cooperation to realize development. He called
on developing countries to strengthen unity, safeguard their own interests
in the process of building a new international political and economic
order and try to promote economic globalization in the direction favorable
to realizing common prosperity. At the same time, Hu suggested that developing
countries should actively explore new ways and measures to effectively
carry out South-South cooperation under new situation. He also stressed
that developed countries bear unshakable responsibility to narrow the
gap between North and South, and they should fully consider the interests
of developing countries, take practical measures in opening markets, developing
trade and increasing aid.
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