On July 18, 2022, State Councilor and foreign minister Wangyi held a telephone conversation with Boehner, the foreign affairs adviser to the president of France. Wangyi said that after President macron won re-election, the two heads of state successfully talked, providing strategic guidance and injecting new impetus into the healthy and stable development of bilateral relations. The two sides quickly implemented the important consensus reached by the head of state and achieved a strong start in bilateral relations. China is willing to work with France to promote the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and France to achieve more dynamic development. Boehner said that France attaches great importance to maintaining high-level exchanges between the two countries. President macron is firmly committed to friendship with China and hopes to promote the comprehensive strategic partnership between France and China to a new level. France is willing to deepen practical cooperation with China in aviation, agriculture, food, energy, humanities and other fields, strengthen coordination in protecting biodiversity, responding to climate change and other global affairs, and looks forward to a new round of strategic dialogue between the two sides as soon as possible. Boehner said that at present, the European continent is rekindling war, and the recovery and development of Europe have been seriously impacted. Both Europe, China and France are committed to peaceful and stable development and adhere to the important concepts of respecting international law and safeguarding the principle of sovereignty. France appreciates China's positive role in promoting food and energy security, attaches great importance to the strategic coordination between France and China, and is willing to jointly show the responsibility of major countries, work for an early ceasefire, and minimize the spillover negative impact of the Ukrainian crisis on vulnerable and underdeveloped countries. Wangyi said that China and France are two important forces of stability in the process of world multipolarization. In the face of the international situation intertwined with chaos, especially the rampant unilateralism and the rise of the jungle law, as a responsible big country, China has always adhered to maintaining the international system with the United Nations as the core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. China is willing to strengthen coordination with France and make due contributions to maintaining peace, stability and development. Wangyi stressed that the Ukrainian crisis has shown a long-term and complex trend, which the world does not want to see. From the beginning, China has insisted on promoting peace and talks, and will continue to make every effort to play a constructive role in the ceasefire and cessation of war. China appreciates President macron's active mediation and supports and believes that France will continue to play a unique and important role as a European power for the restoration of peace. The spillover of the crisis in Ukraine has led to food and energy shortages, posing challenges and risks to global recovery, peace and stability. China also put forward the International Food Security Cooperation Initiative at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting, which can echo with the French initiative of "food and agriculture resilience action" and strive to form more international consensus. Wangyi expressed the hope that France, as a core power of the EU and one of the "troika", will play an active role in the healthy and smooth development of China EU relations, constantly lengthen the positive list of China EU cooperation, and create new cooperation highlights such as energy security, carbon market, green finance, Jointly promote the success of the twenty seventh conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change and the second phase of the fifteenth conference of the parties to the Convention on biological diversity. Boehner expressed his willingness to continue to actively promote EU China cooperation based on the principle of mutual benefit, and reiterated that NATO will adhere to its geographical positioning when it was established, and has no intention and will not expand into the Asia Pacific. (Xinhua News Agency)