Chinese top legislator delivers speech at conference of parliament speakers
21:38, July 19, 2010 
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Wu Bangguo (C, front), chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), attends the third World Conference of Speakers of Parliament held in Geneva, Switzerland, July 19, 2010. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)
Chinese top legislator Wu Bangguo delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the Third World Conference of Speakers of Parliament on Monday.
The first World Conference of Speakers of Parliament was organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the UN in New York in 2000.
It was held in conjunction with the Millennium summit with the aim of supporting the international cooperation and pushing forward reforms at the IPU.
Wu arrived here Sunday afternoon to attend the parliament speakers' conference. Switzerland is Wu's final leg of three-nation tour which took him to France, Serbia and Switzerland.
Source: Xinhua
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（Editor：王千原雪）
The graphics shows the launch procedures of the carrier rocket of Tiangong-1 space lab module, Long March-2FT1 on Sept. 29, 2011. (Xinhua/Lu Zhe) 
Image taken from Beijing Aerospace Control Center shows a Long March-2FT1 carrier rocket loaded with Tiangong-1 unmanned space lab module blasting off from the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province, Sept. 29, 2011. (Xinhua) 
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Chinese forest armed forces work together with forest firefighters on Sept. 28. (Xinhua/Chai Liren)
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A fallen tree is seen on a road in Qionghai, south China's Hainan Province, Sept. 29, 2011. Typhoon Nesat was predicted to land in Hainan later Thursday, bringing heavy rainfalls to the island. (Xinhua/Meng Zhongde)
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