A top UN official on Wednesday spoke highly of China's role in the United Nations, saying the country will play "an ever more important role" on world stage in the future.
"I am extremely happy that at this time to see China playing a role that I always wanted China to play in the world," Miguel d' Escoto Brockmann, the president of 63rd session of the UN General Assembly, said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua.
Perceiving China from "a good and positive attitude," d'Escoto said China's role in the global affairs "is enhancing even more as a main power."
"It's playing a very important role and I think it will play an ever more important role in the future," said the president of the192-member assembly.
China has made a lot of contribution to the world, to its people and the whole community on the earth, said d'Escoto, who has been in the one-year term since Sept. 16 2008.
"The century of China is upon us and we need that to be the case," he said. "I'm very proud of what China is doing, and I hope it will continue in the same direction. We need the values and principles to give us hope and to guarantee a better future for the world."
D'Escoto paid a 5-day official visit to China in late February, met respectively with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping and Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, calling for more cooperation between the United Nations and China on addressing global crises and threats.
Describing his recent China visit "a wonderful trip," the 76-year-old president said he is glad to see how China is developing.
"I came away from China very much comforted and happy to see how this is coming along. I think China is ready now ... to be one of the most important leaders in the shaping of the new world," he said.
During the exclusive interview, d'Escoto mentioned several times his special love for China.
"I was born in the Year of the Rooster," according to the Chinese lunar calendar, d'Escoto said with a beaming smile, pointing to a colored Chinese ornament of a rooster in his office, hung up with red Chinese knots. Nearby, there is a glass lamp in the shape of a standing rooster.
"My father and mother love China very much, and I have been taught by my father to love China and everything in China since I was a little boy," he said, adding that his father took a picture of him dressed like a Chinese boy.
Considering the Chinese food "one of the best food in the world," d'Escoto said Chinese food is one of his favorites. He even recalled the remote scenes of the first Chinese restaurant in Managua, capital of his home country Nicaragua in his childhood.
Born in Los Angeles, California, d'Escoto spent his childhood years in Nicaragua, but returned to the United States in 1947 to study. A veteran statesman, politician, community leader and priest, d'Escoto served for over a decade as the foreign minister of the Republic of Nicaragua, a post he held from July 1979 until April 1990.
Source:Xinhua
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