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Deepening Good-Neighbourly Relationship and Friendship, Upgrading Strategic Cooperation

--Foreign Minister Wand Yi on Attending Meeting of Council of Foreign Ministers of Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Visit to Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan

2013-07-19 16:32

From July 12 to 19, 2013, Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended the Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan, and paid official visits to Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Towards the end of the visits, Wang Yi briefed the Chinese media.

Wang Yi said the primary task of his visits was to make preparations for President Xi Jinping's upcoming attendance at the SCO summit in Bishkek and state visits to the three countries of Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in September this year. President Xi' visits will be important ones of historical significance, which will step up China's relations with those three countries as well as all other Central Asian countries to a higher level. The heads of state of the three countries are all expecting President Xi's visits with great enthusiasm and are all willing to work with China to make overall preparations and to ensure the success of the visits.

Wang Yi pointed out that his visits have sent out a clear message that the Chinese government under the new leadership will firmly adhere to the policy of good-neighbourliness and friendship to Central Asian countries and will further deepen its strategic mutual trust and cooperation with those countries. China and Central Asian countries, including Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, share a long history of being friendly neighbours to each other. China will as always, support Central Asian countries for their own choices of development path in line with their national conditions, and support the countries to take measures to maintain stability and to develop the economy. The national leaders of Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan said that they regard China as a reliable friend and partner. They thank China for the long-time strong support, and spoke highly of the great influence China exerts as a responsible major country in regional and international affairs. The three countries firmly support China's stance and actions on safeguarding national unity and fighting against the "three evil forces".

Wang Yi noted that an important consensus reached in his visit is to comprehensively deepen practical cooperation with Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. China is willing to carry out mutually beneficial cooperation with the three countries, in line with their national development plans, in the fields of trade and economy, energy and connectivity as well as in border areas, so as to promote the economic development and improve the people's livelihood in the three countries. The leaders of the three countries said they are willing to seize the important opportunities coming from China's rapid development, to expand mutually beneficial cooperation with China in trade and economy, railway and highway construction, mining, agriculture and tourism, and to contribute to the economic and social development of their countries.

During the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of SCO, the Chinese side had an in-depth exchange of views with other member states on building up SCO's inner strength and forging the SCO as an interest community in political, security, economic and social fields. The Chinese side proposed that, to add new vitality and vigor to the SCO, member states should, on the basis of maintaining regional peace and security, take into full account their respective priority of economic revitalization, make the best of their economic complementariness and connection, and advance practical cooperation among them. They can further improve connectivity in infrastructure construction, actively promote the facilitation of trade and investment, and vigorously increase people-to-people exchanges. China is ready to well cooperate with Kyrgyzstan in hosting the SCO summit in Bishkek and work with Uzbekistan in preparing the SCO Prime Ministers' meeting in Tashkent. The national leaders of Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan and the Foreign Ministers of all member states expressed that their countries are willing to further strengthen coordination with China in SCO, to promote mutually beneficial cooperation, to safeguard common security and to deepen friendship between the peoples.

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