China party leader, PGMA meeting in Manila next week
By Gloria Jane Baylon
MANILA,
July 5 (PNA) — A ranking member of the Communist Party of China (CPC)
in Beijing is scheduled to visit Manila next week for what the Chinese
embassy has described as “high-level exchanges” with Philippine
leaders, including one with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on July
8.
Liu
Qi, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPC
and secretary of its Beijing Municipal Committee, will visit on July 7
and 8, “spearheading another round of high-level exchanges between
China and the Philippines and giving a boost to a stronger
China-Philippines relationship,” said the embassy’s deputy political
secretary and spokesperson, Ethan Sun Yi.
It
will be the first such high-level “goodwill visit” from Beijing since
the posting in Manila of Ambassador Liu Jianchao, a long-time former
spokesman of the China Foreign Ministry.
Qi will first meet with House Speaker Prospero Nograles on the evening of his arrival on July 7.
On
Wednesday, the CPC official would lunch with Senate President Juan
Ponce Enrile and pay a visit with Mayor Alfredo Lim of the City of
Manila, Beijing’s sister city since 2002.
Accompanied
by Ambassador Liu, the visitor will proceed to Malacanang for a meeting
with President Arroyo, the Chinese embassy said. (PNA)
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