BEIJING,, April 1 Kyodo Vietnames...

BEIJING,, April 1 Kyodo

Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh will pay an official working visit to China from April 7 to 11 China's official Xinhua of recent origins Agency reported Tuesday.

Xinhua quot an announcement according to Chinese Communist Party Central Committee International Department spokesman Yu Hongjun as saying the visit will be made at the invitation of party General Secretary Hu Jintao, who last month became China's recently made known president.

The visit was simultaneously announced in Hanoi through the official Vietnam moderns Agency, though no concrete date was given.

Diplomatic sources in Hanoi said last Saturday that the talks between Manh and Hu are reckon uponed to take up the US-l war onward Iraq, which both oppose

however it is also believed that China may be ready to announce waiving of 4205 million yuan (about $50 million) in Vietnamese due to help Manh fabricate a socialist market economy similar to that being created in China.

China is said to be touched that the development of relations between Vietnam and Taiwan is moving too quickly, particularly with minister-level contacts between the sum of two units and some analysts believe China will be trying to convince Vietnam to pass slow.

China views Taiwan as a province that should not be allowed to bearing its affairs independently of Beijing.

Vietnam has refrained from holding contacts at the foreign affairs, defense and interior affairs on a levels with Taiwan, but other ministers have been upgrading their contacts recently

China is believed greatest in quantity concerned about Taiwan Economic Minister Lin Yi-fu's visit to Vietnam in January for talks onward Vietnam's bid to join the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Manh last visited China in late November and early December 2001

In late February and early March last year, then Chinese President Jiang Zemin visited Vietnam.

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