China's top legislator Zhao Leji met with Cambodia's National Assembly President Khuon Sudary in Beijing on Monday.
At the invitation of Zhao, chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, Sudary is visiting China from Sept 22 to 26.
At the meeting, Zhao said that the building of a China-Cambodia community with a shared future has entered a new era of high quality, high level and high standards under the strategic guidance of the leaders of the two countries.
China is willing to work with Cambodia to implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, further enrich the "diamond hexagon" bilateral cooperation framework, and strive for solid progress in building a China-Cambodia community with a shared future, Zhao said.
China always places Cambodia in a special position in its neighborhood diplomacy, Zhao said, adding that the Chinese side is willing to maintain high-level strategic communication with Cambodia, firmly support each other on issues concerning their respective core interests, speed up the synergy of development strategies, and comprehensively advance cooperation in politics, production capacity, agriculture, energy, security, as well as people-to-people and cultural exchanges. China is also willing to strengthen coordination and cooperation with Cambodia at multilateral platforms such as the United Nations, China-ASEAN cooperation and the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) to jointly build a peaceful, tranquil, prosperous, beautiful and friendly homeland for China and ASEAN, Zhao said.
He emphasized that the NPC is willing to make joint efforts with the Cambodian legislature to fully play the role of their exchange mechanism, promote cooperation between the two sides' specialized committees, friendship groups, lawmakers and local legislatures in a comprehensive manner, and strengthen the exchange of experience in lawmaking, supervision and other work, so as to provide legal guarantee for practical cooperation between the two countries.
Zhao said that both China and Cambodia have chosen democratic political systems that suit their respective national conditions, and the legislatures of the two sides can strengthen exchanges and mutual learning in developing democracy and improving the rule of law.
For her part, Sudary said that Cambodia firmly upholds the one-China principle and actively supports China's Belt and Road Initiative, Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative and Global Civilization Initiative.
Cambodia's National Assembly is willing to strengthen friendly exchanges with the NPC and make positive contributions to the development of bilateral relations.
Zhao and Sudary singed a cooperation agreement between the NPC and the National Assembly of Cambodia after the meeting.
China's top legislator meets Cambodia's National Assembly president
