Your Honor Mr. Mayor, my Chinese friends, ladies and gentlemen, I feel honor to come here on my first visit to your beautiful city. On behalf of all the members of my mission, I would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere thanks to our host for their earnest invitation and gracious hospitality we have received since we set foot on this charming land. I am also very happy that this visit has given me an excellent opportunity to convey to you and to the people of Shanghai warm greetings and sincere good wishes from the government and people of my country. Although we live with distance of thousands of miles between us, long distance separates no bosom friends, as one of your Tang poet said. The whole world is watching with great interests the remarkable changes that are taking place in China, particularly in Shanghai. To our great amazement, this country boosts a two-decadepersistent economic growth which is unequalled elsewhere in the world. China's miraculous rise, as one of the strongest economic powers in the Asian-Pacific region, has attracted and will continue to attract a growing number of business, manufacturing and financial giants in our country to invest in China, particularly to invest in a number of long term projects in shanghai and its surrounding areas. Over the last decade, there has never been any place other than Pudong that holds so much attraction for our people in the business community. It is with this awareness that we have come here to seek better ways of promoting our economic and financial cooperation. One of the objectives of my mission is to sign our investment protection agreement and intellectual property rights protection agreement. I am also seeking possibilities of establishing through partnership with our Chinese colleagues a joint consultancy firm that will provide services for transnational corporations in shanghai. Last but not least, I would like to extend in person our official invitation to the mayor of Shanghai. We would like his honor to visit our city at his earliest convenience, so as he gave us an opportunity to return the warm reception and hospitality we enjoy here. I greatly cherish the close relationship between our two cities. I also greatly value the position we enjoy as one of your most important trading partners. In spite of the worldwide economic recession in recent years, there has been a steady growth in our economic cooperation and trade volume. It is our sincere wish that we continue to work closely together to enhance our friendly cooperation and to ensure a sustained growth in our economic, financial and trade cooperation. On the occasion of this reception, I wish Mr. Mayor and all our Chinese friends presented tonight good health. Thank you.

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