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Fri, 12/17/2010 - 12:18
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India, China should work sincerely for common good

New Delhi, Dec 16 (PTI) Observing that India-China
relations had achieved "a high degree of maturity", Indian
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said both countries
have mutual stake in each other's progress and should work
sincerely for development of ties for the common good of the
region.
"The fact is that when India and China, representing
more than two and half billion people, speak in one voice, the
world listens," Singh said at the banquet hosted in honour of
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
Singh underlined that both India and China have a
mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity and told
Wen that people of India have admired the Chinese people for
the rapid strides made in all fields.
"Let us pledge to work sincerely for the rapid
development of our ties in the second decade of this century
for the common good of the region," he said.
"Our relationship has transcended the bilateral
dimension and has assumed global and strategic significance.
The growing inter-dependence of nations provides both the
opportunity and the obligation for India and China to
cooperate together to meet the challenges facing the
international community," he said.
Singh noted that India-China relations have achieved
"a high degree of maturity that serves the interest of our two
peoples".
As the Asian century unfolds, "we must work together
to bring peace, stability and development to our peoples, to
the region and to the world at large," he said, adding India
stands ready to play its part in "this important and noble
enterprise".
Describing Wen as a "friend of India and the architect
of the India-China Strategic and Cooperative Partnership"
established in 2005, Singh said that since the Premier's last
visit here five years back, the world has witnessed
significant changes and India has been engaged in the task of
socio-economic transformation.
Singh said the Chinese leader's visit was a fitting
culmination to the commemoration of the 60th anniversary year
of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two
countries.

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