BEIJING, Jun 23 (APP): Bangladesh and Pakistan are both good neighbors, good friends, and good partners of China, and important partners in high quality Belt and Road cooperation.
As significant members of the Global South and key countries in the region, all three countries face the mission of national revitalization and modernization, and all require a peaceful and stable environment, as stated recently by Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong stated recently.
The announcement followed the China-Pakistan-Bangladesh Trilateral Vice Foreign Minister/Foreign Secretary meeting held on June 19 in Kunming. The meeting was attended by Sun Weidong, Bangladeshi Acting Foreign Secretary Ruhul Alam Siddique and Pakistani Additional Secretary (Asia Pacific) Imran Ahmed Siddiqui. Pakistani Foreign Secretary Amna Baloch participated in the first phase of the meeting via video link, CEN reported.
The meeting was fruitful in four aspects, Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun stated on Monday at a daily news briefing.
According to the Foreign Ministry, the three sides exchanged views extensively on China-Pakistan-Bangladesh trilateral cooperation. The three sides agreed to advance trilateral cooperation based on the principles of good-neighborliness, equality and mutual trust, openness and inclusiveness, common development, and win-win cooperation. China-Bangladesh-Pakistan trilateral cooperation focuses on promoting economic development and improving people’s livelihoods.
The three sides agreed to explore and implement cooperation projects in such areas as industry, trade, maritime affairs, water resources, climate change, agriculture, human resources, think tanks, health, education, culture, and youth.
The three sides will establish a working group to follow up and implement the understandings reached during the meeting.
The three sides emphasized that China-Bangladesh-Pakistan cooperation adheres to true multilateralism and open regionalism, not directed at any third party.
The Chinese government is committed to building a community with a shared future with neighboring countries.
Cooperation among China, Pakistan and Bangladesh aligns with the common interests of the three peoples, and can contribute to regional peace, stability, development and prosperity, according to Sun Weidong.