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Highlights of Wen's activities at UN

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-09-23 16:08

UNITED NATIONS - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is now at the United Nations for a series activities including the just-concluded summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Following are highlights of Wen's activities at the UN headquarters.

-- Wen addressed the UN summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),saying that China will step up efforts to reduce poverty and fulfill its commitments to realizing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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He called on the international community to prioritize African development and poverty alleviation so as to fulfill the MDGs in the coming five years before the 2015 deadline.

Wen noted that achieving the MDGs remains a long, uphill journey, and that progress toward the MDGs is still uneven in different regions and fields. He promised that China will expand its efforts in foreign assistance.

-- Wen attended a UN panel to discuss ways to enhance anti-AIDS efforts as part of a global campaign to meet the MDGs, and illustrated the developing countries' determination to cope with HIV/AIDS and achieve the MDGs.

They also called for further cooperation among developing countries and urged developed nations and the international community to honor their commitments.

Wen appealed to the World Health Organization, UNAIDS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS and other international institutions to step up coordination, mobilize resources and make good use of their professional expertise to help developing countries, sub-Saharan African countries in particular, improve HIV/AIDS prevention and control.

He also called on the international community to intensify cooperation on HIV/AIDS-related scientific research and the multinational medical institutions and pharmaceutical companies to make real efforts to lower the cost of HIV/AIDS treatment and drugs.

-- Wen attended the launching ceremony of a multi-billion-US dollar plan of the United Nations to save the lives of women and children, saying that China will try its best to participate in international cooperation aimed at ensuring better health for women and children.

-- Wen met with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and said that China will play a more active role in UN affairs in various sectors and to strengthen its partnership with the UN.

-- Wen met celebrities from the US economic and financial community, and said that China and the United States should positively carry out a large-scale economic and trade cooperation, and  political and strategic mutual trust should be the precondition of such cooperation.

--  Wen met on Wednesday with some Chinese nationals and Chinese Americans in the United States, during which he urged Japan to release the illegally detained Chinese skipper "immediately and unconditionally."

"If Japan clings to its mistake, China will take further actions, and the Japanese side shall bear all the consequences that arise," Wen said.

Wen said the China-Japan relations had witnessed improvement and development thanks to years of efforts by both sides.

The good momentum has now suffered severe damage and Japan is solely responsible, Wen added.