Pakistan, China reaffirm commitment to CPEC during 3rd Trans-Himalaya Forum
Caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani has said China Pakistan Economic Corridor has helped to transform Pakistan’s economic landscape and brought tangible benefits to the country. He was talking to the director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs China Wang Yi during a meeting at the sidelines of third China Xizang Trans-Himalaya Forum for International Cooperation in Nyingchi. Foreign Minister said that the Pakistan-China relationship has always been the cornerstone of Pakistan’s foreign policy. He also extended congratulations on the 74th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Speaking on the occasion, Wang Yi said Pakistan and China are all-weather strategic cooperative partners and ironclad brothers. He said that bilateral relations have withstood the test of time and continued to maintain a sound momentum of development. Wang Yi said that China stands ready to work with Pakistan to promote high-quality development of the CPEC.
BEIJING:China expressed its readiness to promote high-quality development of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a mega project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that brought tangible benefits to the economic development of Pakistan and its people, Chinese media reported on Friday.
According to the China Global Television Network (CGTN), senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi met with caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani on the fringes of the third Trans-Himalaya Forum for International Cooperation held in Nyingchi, in China’s Xizang (Tibet) Autonomous Region.
Wang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, noted that Sino-Pak relations had withstood the test of time and continued to maintain a sound momentum of development.
“This year marks the 10th anniversary of the BRI and the launch of CPEC,” CGTN quoted Wang as saying during the bilateral meeting with Jilani.
Wang noted that the CPEC had brought tangible benefits to the economic development of Pakistan and its people.
Wang said that “China stands ready to work with Pakistan” to promote high-quality development of the CPEC, the report added.
On the occasion, the report continued, Jilani also spoke highly of the “fruitful results of bilateral cooperation and the CPEC”.
Jilani stressed that the Pakistan-China relationship had always been the cornerstone of Pakistan’s foreign policy.
The foreign minister acknowledged that CPEC had helped Pakistan transform its economic landscape and brought tangible benefits to the country.
Earlier, Jilani participated in the third China-Tibet Trans-Himalayan Forum. In his speech at the forum, Jilani underscored the importance of regional cooperation for green development, ecological preservation and connectivity for inclusive and sustainable development.
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