Top Chinese legislator leaves for European visit

op Chinese legislator Wu Bangguo left Beijing Wednesday for an official good-will visit to France, Serbia and Switzerland from July 7 to 20.

Wu, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, will also attend the third World Conference of Speakers of Parliament in Geneva during his stay in Switzerland.

Wu is invited by Speaker of French National Assembly Bernard Accoyer, French Senate President Gerard Larcher, Serbian Parliamentary Speaker Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic, President of the National Council of Swiss Federal Assembly Pascale Bruderer, President of the Council of States of Swiss Federal Assembly Erika Forster-Vannini, Inter-Parliamentary Union(IPU) President Theo-Ben Gurirab, and IPU Secretary-general Anders B. Johnsson.

Source:Xinhua