China willing to work with ASEAN to promote regional, global peace
China is willing to join hands with Singapore and other member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to promote regional and global peace, stability, development and prosperity, a Chinese official has said.
Yang Jiechi, Politburo member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) (L) and Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (Photo: The Ministry of Communications and Information of Singapore)
Hanoi (VNA) - China iswilling to join hands with Singapore and other member states of the Associationof Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to promote regional and global peace,stability, development and prosperity, a Chinese official has said.
Chinese news agency Xinhua quoted Yang Jiechi, a Politburo member of theCommunist Party of China (CPC) as saying at a meeting with Singaporean PrimeMinister Lee Hsien Loong on August 20 in Singapore that his country is ready towork with Singapore and other ASEAN member nations to deepen strategic mutualtrust and practical cooperation to safeguard economic globalization andfairness and justice in the international arena.
Yang, who is also director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission ofthe CPC Central Committee, stressed that China stands ready to work withSingapore to strengthen what they have achieved in the fight against theCOVID-19, further promote the high-quality joint development of the Belt andRoad and build the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor.
Lee, for his part, emphasised that the COVID-19 pandemic requires more thanever that countries work together and communicate with each other rationally.
The Singaporean leader added that hiscountry will make good use of the existing bilateral cooperation mechanism withChina to push forward the ASEAN-China relationship and jointly spur theregional and global economic recovery.
Yang Jiechi was on a two-day visit to Singapore from August 19, during which healso met with Singaporean Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat, Senior Ministerand Coordinating Minister for National Security Teo Chee Hean and Minister forForeign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan, according to Xinhua./.
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Yang Jiechi, Politburo member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) (L) and Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (Photo: The Ministry of Communications and Information of Singapore) 
