Top Chinese legislator Wu Bangguo will pay official and goodwill visits to Brazil, Uruguay and Chile from August 28 to September 9.

 

Wu, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, will also visit the Latin-American Parliament in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

 

Wu was invited by President Renan Calheiros of the Federal Senate and President Also Rebelo of the Chamber of Deputies of the Brazilian National Congress, and President Rodolfo Gustavo Nin Noboa of the National Congress of Uruguay, who is also Uruguay's vice president and president of the Senate.

 

Wu will also be a guest of President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle of the Senate and President Antonio Leal Labrin of the Chamber of Deputies of the National Congress of Chile, and President Ney Lopes of the Latin-American Parliament.

 

(Xinhua News Agency August 23, 2006)