CHINA HONOURS NINE INDIANS INCLUDING A LAWMAKER FOR PROMOTING BILATERAL FRIENDSHIP

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China honours nine Indians including a lawmaker for promoting bilateral friendship.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao honours nine Indians including a lawmaker with China-India friendship awards for promoting bilateral friendship.

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NEW DELHI, INDIA (DECEMBER 15, 2010) (ANI-NO ACCESS BBC)

1. CHINESE PREMIER WEN JIABAO ARRIVING

2. WEN MEETING SITA RAM YECHURY, LEADER, COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MARXIST) AND OTHER RECIPIENTS OF THE CHINA-INDIA FRIENDSHIP AWARDS

3. WEN SHAKING HANDS WITH THE AWARDEES

4. WEN

5. AWARDEES AND WEN STANDING

6. AWARDEES

7. WEN PRESENTING THE AWARD TO YECHURY

8. WEN PRESENTING THE AWARDS TO OTHERS RECIPIENTS

9. AWARD CEREMONY IN PROGRESS

10. WEN SPEAKING WITH AWARDEES

11. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SITA RAM YECHURY, LEADER, COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MARXIST), SAYING: “Prime Minister of the people Republic of China on his state visit on Indian soil has chosen to give this award to certain people from various walks of life. It is gesture both by India and China, the fact that this programme has been organised on Indian soil shows the mutual desire to improve our relations.”

12. CHINESE MEDIA PERSONS

13. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SITA RAM YECHURY, LEADER, COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MARXIST), SAYING: “There have been ups and downs; there are certain problems now that need to be resolved. There are concerns that Indian has, there are concerns that China perhaps would have but all these are issues which according to me will have to be resolved within the frame work of the Panchsheel.”

14. AWARDEES STANDING

15. WEN

16. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SITA RAM YECHURY, LEADER, COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MARXIST), SAYING: “Staple visa issue, the boundary question. The boundary question is anyway is being discussed at a continuous basis. The staple visa issues there are some concerns we have, what they are doing with Brahmaputra in China, in the Tibetan part of China, so these are issues of our concern.”

17. AWARDEES STANDING WITH WEN

STORY: Visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Wednesday (December 15) honoured senior Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Sitaram Yechury and eight other Indians from various walks of life with the China-India Friendship Award for their efforts in promoting ties and friendship between the two countries.

Speaking on behalf of the awardees, Yechury thanked the Government of China for the honour, and said these awards are an indication of a mutual desire between both the countries to improve ties.

“Prime Minister of the people Republic of China on his state visit on Indian soil has chosen to give this award to certain people from various walks of life. It is gesture both by India and China, the fact that this programme has been organised on Indian soil shows the mutual desire to improve our relations,” he said.

Talking to Asian News International, Yechury reiterated both India and China needed to resolve their issues, including the boundary question and the stapled visa controversy in the spirit espoused in Panscheel and China’s five principles of co-existence.

“There have been ups and downs; there are certain problems now that need to be resolved. There are concerns that Indian has, there are concerns that China perhaps would have but all these are issues which according to me will have to be resolved within the frame work of the Panchsheel,” he said.

“Staple visa issue, the boundary question. The boundary question is anyway is being discussed at a continuous basis. The staple visa issues there are some concerns we have, what they are doing with Brahmaputra in China, in the Tibetan part of China, so these are issues of our concern,” added Yechury.

The Chinese principles were mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity; mutual non-aggression; non-interference in each other’s internal affairs; equality and mutual benefit and peaceful co-existence.

Former Chinese Premier Zhou-En-Lai proposed these in 1953 during negotiations with India over Tibet. The then Premiers Zhou and Jawaharlal Nehru wrote them into an agreement between China and India on trade and intercourse with regard to Tibet in 1954.

India refers to these principles as Panchsheel.

Premier Jiabao arrived in New Delhi early on Wednesday on a three-day visit to boost trade and soothe tensions between the two fastest-growing major economies in the world.

Following visits by U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Nicholas Sarkozy, Wen has brought with him more than 400 business leaders, underscoring the growing commercial ties of the two countries which, between them, house more than a third of the world’s population.

The two countries, one-time rivals who went to war in 1962, are now entwined by their booming trade relationship and rising global clout. Both have stood together to resist Western demands in world trade and climate change talks.

Closer economic ties are driving much of the goodwill. China is India’s largest trade partner and bilateral flows are expected to hit $60 billion in this fiscal year ending March 2011, though the trade is skewed heavily in China’s favour.

After his visit to New Delhi, Wen then travels to Pakistan, India’s nuclear-armed rival, for another two days.