SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi mentioned right here on Thursday that China and South Korea ought to strengthen communication, improve mutual belief and pursue strategic cooperation in political, financial, commerce and safety fields.
Wang, additionally a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks when holding a strategic dialogue with Wi Sung-lac, South Korea’s high presidential nationwide safety advisor, in Seoul.
Wang mentioned that the trade of visits between the 2 heads of state since final 12 months has ushered China-South Korea relations into a brand new stage of enchancment and improvement.
China’s coverage towards South Korea has remained constant and steady, at all times inserting it excessive on China’s agenda for neighborhood diplomacy, Wang mentioned. As South Korea’s largest neighbor and an vital power for peace, China has by no means initiated or participated in wars and has constantly performed a constructive position in selling the peaceable settlement of worldwide and regional disputes, he added.
Wang mentioned that China appreciates the present administration’s efforts to convey China-South Korea strategic cooperative partnership again on observe, calling on the 2 sides to cut back pointless suspicion and strengthen strategic cooperation to learn each peoples and contribute to regional peace and safety.
Wang expressed hope that South Korea will pursue real strategic autonomy, chorus from bloc confrontation or taking sides, and develop its relations with China, the United States and different main nations in a mutually suitable method.
For his half, Wi mentioned that South Korea is able to work with China to implement the consensus reached by the 2 heads of state, ship tangible outcomes, enhance the well-being of each peoples and advance the strategic cooperative partnership to a brand new stage.
Wi added that South Korea is dedicated to growing relations with totally different nations in a mutually suitable method and is able to keep shut high-level strategic dialogue with China to hitch forces for regional peace and stability.
During the dialogue, the 2 sides additionally had an in-depth trade of views on regional safety points.
Wang burdened that it’s vital to stay extremely vigilant towards the rhetoric and actions of Japan’s right-wing forces that search to show again the wheel of historical past, and that the resurgence of Japanese militarism must not ever be allowed.
Speaking on the Korean Peninsula scenario, Wang mentioned the elemental solution to ease tensions is to handle the foundation causes and to push for the United States to desert its hostile coverage towards the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
The Chinese high diplomat known as on all events to do extra to facilitate the resumption of dialogue and restoration of mutual belief, expressing hopes that the Korean Peninsula will transfer towards peaceable coexistence between South Korea and the DPRK, in the end attaining lasting peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.