Wednesday, 12/03/14
The Chinese ambassador in Spain, Zhu Bangzao, ha asegurado hoy que su país "nunca" has put economic pressure on Spain before the judicial investigation for the repression in the Tibet, and has trusted that Rajoy trip to China este año "tras la solución adecuada del problema presente".
Madrid, 12 mar.- The Chinese ambassador in Spain, Zhu Bangzao, ha asegurado hoy que su país "nunca" has exerted economic pressure on Spain in the face of the judicial investigation into the repression in Tibet, y ha confiado en que Rajoy viaje a China este año "tras la solución adecuada del problema presente".
After attending the Spain-China Foundation awards ceremony at the Viana Palace, The ambassador has responded to journalists who have asked him if his country is satisfied with the reform, driven by the PP, of the Organic Law of the Judiciary that limits the cases of universal justice in which Spanish judges can intervene.
Ha argumentado que la reforma "pertenece a la policy interna" Spanish and has insisted on his country's policy of non-interference: "En China no queremos que España se interponga en nuestros asuntos internos, nosotros tampoco queremos intervenir en asuntos internos de España".
Rajoy suspended the official visit he had planned to make to China last September, due to scheduling problems of the Chinese president, Xi Jin Ping, as the ambassador of this country recalled today.
"Esperamos que él pueda realizar este viaje este año después de la solución adecuada del problema presente", has trusted.
Asked if the visit is conditioned by the solution of this problem, Bangzao ha asegurado que "el viaje de Rajoy a China no está condicionado por ningún asunto" y ha añadido que "si surge algún problema entre los dos países solucionamos el problema mediante comunicación".
The ambassador has also denied that his country has exerted the economic pressures on the Government that, He said, the media has spoken.
"Nunca hemos ejercido ninguna influencia económica ni presión económica sobre España", ha recalcado el embajador quien sí ha reconocido que mantienen "muy buena comunicación" con las autoridades españolas a las que han expresado sus "opiniones" about this matter.
"Si tenemos razón y si nuestras opiniones son convincentes, supongo que los órganos españoles aceptan nuestros argumentos", He added.
Bangzao ha afirmado que España "es uno de los mejores amigos" de China y ha subrayado que ambos países mantienen "estas buenas relaciones" porque respetan "mutuamente los núcleos de intereses" que comparten y "la soberanía nacional de ambos".
"Si surgen algunos problemas, se pueden resolver manteniendo ese principio", the ambassador continued, quien ha esperado que se pueda "solucionar este problema de manera adecuada" and that bilateral relations are not affected by this issue.
The National Court of Spain has thirteen cases open in which it investigates crimes committed outside Spanish territory or universal justice., when the Congress of Deputies approved today to limit that jurisdiction to cases in which Spanish judges can intervene.
The causes of universal justice that the National Court instructs, judicial body in charge of these investigations, and that will be affected by this initiative when it is definitively approved by the Senate son:
Last week, Congress approved with the votes of the PP the proposal to modify the Organic Law of the Judiciary that limits the cases of universal justice in which Spanish judges can intervene.
Among the cases opened by the National Court in which crimes committed outside Spanish territory or universal justice are investigated, includes the investigation into a complaint against former Chinese communist leaders for the alleged genocide in Tibet in the eighties and nineties.
(EFE agency)
