MEP Minister Zhou Shengxian, who accompanied Premier Wen Jiabao at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro of Brazil, met with foreign representatives such as Mr. Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP, Mr. Leape, Director General of the WWF, Mr. Corrado Clini, Minister of Italian Ministry of Environment, Land and Seas, Mr. Svend Auken, Environment Minister of Denmark, Mr. Ben Knapen, Minister for European Affairs and International Cooperation of the Netherlands and Ms. Annika Markovic, Sweden's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Brazil who attended the CCICED 20th Anniversary Side-Event in the afternoon of June 21 local time.
At the meeting, MEP Minister Zhou Shengxian spoke highly of the cooperation and fruitful achievements under CCICED framework and expressed heartfelt thanks to continuous support of all parties to CCICED over the past years. He hoped that all participants pay attention to and support long-term development of CCICED, further strengthen exchanges and cooperation with the help of CCICED platform, and jointly facilitate sustainable development of China and the whole world.
Foreign representatives congratulated the achievements of the Chinese Government in environmental protection and sustainable development and felt an honor to take part in this process through CCICED. They expressed their willingness to strengthen environmental cooperation with the Chinese side and actively participate in and support activities of CCICED.
MEP Vice Minister Li Ganjie and Mr. Xu Qinghua, MEP Chief Engineer on Nuclear safety and DG of Department of International Cooperation accompanied Minister Zhou Shengxian.