Visiting Ismail Tiliwaldi, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), recently had a meeting with Kyrgyz Parliament Speaker Akhmatbek Keldibekov in Bishkek, news agencies reported.

As a special envoy of President Hu Jintao, the Chinese envoy was in Bishkek to attend the inauguration of the newly elected Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev. In the course of talks, Tiliwaldi expressed the willingness of China to expand ties with K...

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