China, Algeria for strengthening bilateral co-operation

China and Algeria have vowed to strengthen cooperation between their two countries in all fields especially on the international arena or on the economic level.

The Chinese News agency on Friday quoted a Chinese - Algerian joint statement released on the occasion of the visit of the Algerian President Abdul Aziz Butaflika to China as saying that the two countries agreed, in particular to coordinate their moves to establish a new world order on the economic and political level.

The statement explained the two countries also agreed on the area of human rights through stressing the principle of non- intervention in the internal affairs of other states and to work together to fight all forms of terrorism. They also agreed to strengthen and expand their economic relations and stressed the integration between the two countries's economy.

The Algerian president who arrived on Monday in Beijing to take part in the Afro- Chinese cooperation forum met on Thursday with the Chinese President Jiang Zemin before they had signed an economic and technological cooperation agreement..