On September 25, 2004, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing on Saturday hailed Premier Wen Jiabao's two-nation tour to Kyrgyzstan and Russia as a complete success, saying the visit is fruitful in promoting mutual political understanding, bilateral trade and good-neighborly relationship.

Li, who accompanied the premier during his visit to the two countries and attendance at the third meeting of prime minister of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's (SCO) member states, said Premier Wen held extensive talks with government leaders of the SCO members, signing a total of 13 bilateral documents and nine multilateral ones.

During his visit to Russia, Li said, Premier Wen reached a consensus with his Russian counterpart, Mikhail Fradkov, that the two countries should make joint efforts in expanding and deepening their strategic partnership of cooperation.

Li said the two countries recognized each other's full market economy status, pledged to maintain a sustainable development of bilateral trade.

During Wen's visit to Moscow, the two sides also vowed to strengthen cooperation in fighting terrorism, and in such humanistic spheres as culture, education, health, sports and the media, and in oil and natural gas projects, including the construction of pipelines between China and Russia, the foreign minister said.

While visiting Kyrgyzstan, Wen and his Kyrgyz counterpart, Nikolai Tanayev, agreed to expand cooperation in transport, energy, agriculture, food processing, electric machinery, aviation, textiles and finance, Li said.

The two sides promised to strengthen coordination and cooperation in combating terrorism, separatism and extremism, vowing to continue to carry out strong measures in jointly fighting the so-called "Eastern Turkistan" terrorist group.

When attending the SCO prime ministers meeting, Wen and other government leaders of the organization's member states reached agreement that security and trade have become the primary tasks of the organization, Li said.

The foreign minister concluded that Wen's visit strengthened China's ties with Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and helped promote cooperation within the SCO, which was founded in Shanghai in 2001 by China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.