Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his German counterpart
Frank-Walter Steinmeier are scheduled to meet in Berlin Tuesday,
Chinese diplomats said?in Berlin?on?Monday.
According to sources from the Chinese embassy in Berlin, the two
ministers are to discuss bilateral relations and international
issues including the Iran nuclear program.
The two ministers will meet the press before they hold talks in
the mansion of the German Federal Foreign Ministry, said the
sources.
Later Tuesday, the two ministers will join their counterparts
from the United States, France, Britain and Russia for a six-nation
foreign ministers' meeting on Iran nuclear issue.
Earlier Sunday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu
said China "attaches great importance to its friendly ties with
Germany and has always taken a strategic and long-term perspective
in studying and handling the problems in bilateral relations."
She said China appreciates Germany's opposition to a referendum
on United Nations membership by the Taiwan authorities, as well as
the European country's opposition to any attempt at Tibetan
independence.
(Xinhua News Agency January 22, 2008)
