China's top legislator Zhao Leji met with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in Beijing on Friday, with both sides pledging to deepen pragmatic cooperation, especially between the two countries' legislative bodies.
Zhao, chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, said over the past 75 years since China and Slovakia established diplomatic relationship, bilateral relations have developed steadily and traditional friendship has grown even stronger.
China is willing to work with Slovakia to build a solid political foundation, expand Belt and Road cooperation and cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European countries, and strengthen people-to-people exchanges, so as to push China-Slovakia relations to a higher level, he said.
Zhao said the NPC stands ready to deepen exchanges at all levels and in all fields with the Slovak parliament, strengthen exchanges of governance experience, and provide policy support and legal guarantees for practical cooperation between the two countries.
Fico said Slovakia attaches great importance to its relations with China and upholds the one-China principle.
Slovakia is willing to further enhance bilateral cooperation, promote and deepen exchanges between the two legislative bodies to serve the development of both sides, and deliver benefits to the people of the two countries, he said.
Fico is on an official visit to China from Oct 31 to Nov 5.
China's top legislator meets Slovak PM
