ICAPP meeting adopts Beijing Declaration
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-09-05 14:48

Hu Jintao (center, first row), general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Chinese president, poses for a group photo with delegates to the Third International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing September 3, 2004. [Xinhua]

Following is the full text of Beijing Declaration issued in Beijing Sunday, September 5, at the closing ceremony of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP):

Beijing Declaration 2004

The Third International Conference of Asian Political Parties

September 5, 2004

1. We leaders and representatives of 81 political parties from 35 countries attended the Third International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) hosted by the Communist Party of China in Beijing China, September 3rd through 5th, 2004.

2. The ICAPP, established in September 2000, is a great undertaking in which Asian political parties adjust to the contemporary trend of peace and development, adapt to the rapid development of regional cooperation and expand international exchanges and cooperation among themselves. The ICAPP has become an important forum where legal political parties of sovereign Asian countries can exchange political ideas, seek political consensus and increase understanding and trust. It has also become a new channel and new mechanism through which political parties can play their unique role in promoting regional cooperation and mutual development. The Third ICAPP has injected new vigor into international exchanges among political parties of Asian countries.

3. "Exchange, Cooperation and Development" is not only the explicit theme of the Third ICAPP but also the unshirkable historical duty of Asia's political parties and politicians. The leaders and representatives of the Asian political parties at this conference have carried out extensive discussion and exchanges of ideas on the three topics of regional security and multilateral cooperation, economic development and social progress, and party building and national development. The conference has been productive, and it has met the objectives of further strengthening mutual friendship, exchanges and cooperation, increasing mutual understanding, trust and consensus, and jointly safeguarding regional peace, stability and unity.

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