Macedonia would unswervingly adhere to one China policy and push the friendly cooperation between the two countries in all fields to a new level, Macedonian leaders said on Monday.

Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski and the country's Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski expressed the same opinion when they held separate talks with a visiting delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

"Macedonia attaches great importance to advancing bilateral relations with China. It would unswervingly stick to its one China policy and strengthen its friendly cooperation with China in all fields," the two leaders told the delegation, led by Wang Jiarui, head of the International Department of the CPC central committee.

Wang spoke highly of the bilateral relations between the two countries and their political parties, saying that contacts between the two countries' political parties have become an important component in the bilateral relations.

"The Communist Party of China would like to strengthen its friendly cooperation with Macedonian political parties to make joint efforts to push the relationship between the two countries towards a healthy, stable and all-round development," Wang said.

Gruevski said that the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization-Democratic Party of Macedonian National Unity (VMRO-DPMNE), which he chairs, pays close attention to China's achievements in economic construction.

"Our party would like to deepen the cooperation between the two parties, and to learn from the experiences that the Communist Party of China has accumulated in ruling the party and governing the country," Gruevski said.

Macedonia is the third leg on the delegation's five-country tour in Asia and Europe. They came to Macedonia after visits to Tajikistan and Georgia. The trip will also take them to Albania and Turkmenistan.

(Xinhua News Agency September 4, 2007)