The 10th China Japan South Korea Foreign Ministers Meeting was held in Busan, South Korea
2023-11-27
On November 26th local time, Wang Yi, a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, attended the 10th China Japan South Korea Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Busan, South Korea, together with South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin and Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Uekawa. Wang Yi stated that cooperation between China, Japan, and South Korea has become the most institutionalized, wide-ranging, and rich multilateral cooperation framework in East Asia, effectively serving the development of the three countries and benefiting the people of the region. The development process of cooperation between China, Japan, and South Korea shows that trilateral cooperation has a solid foundation, strong demand, huge potential, and broad prospects. Faced with the accelerated evolution of the century long changes and the slow recovery of the world economy, China, Japan, and South Korea should take a more proactive attitude and play a positive role in promoting regional and global development. China will continue to adhere to the principle of friendship and partnership with its neighbors, work together with South Korea and Japan to promote the return of trilateral cooperation to the right track, maintain healthy, stable and sustainable development, and make new contributions to regional and world peace and prosperity. Wang Yi pointed out that it is necessary to revisit the history and achievements of China Japan South Korea cooperation, adhere to the original intention and anchor the direction, and adhere to the implementation of leaders' consensus such as the "Outlook for the Next Ten Years of China Japan South Korea Cooperation" as we embark on a reorganization of our organization. The top priority is to continue to uphold the spirit of facing history and the future, respect each other's development paths and core interests, properly address sensitive issues, maintain good bilateral relations, and lay a solid foundation for promoting the comprehensive restart and stable development of trilateral cooperation. In the long run, we also need to combine new situations, new patterns, and new environments to endow cooperation with new connotations, new missions, and new levers. Wang Yi emphasized that the three countries should adhere to advocating mutual benefit and win-win results, restart negotiations on the China Japan South Korea Free Trade Agreement as soon as possible, maintain the momentum of regional economic integration, improve multi-channel and multi-level regional free trade arrangements, and contribute to the common goal of moving towards the Asia Pacific Free Trade Area. We must adhere to deepening technological innovation, strengthen cooperation in cutting-edge technology fields such as big data, blockchain, and artificial intelligence, jointly maintain stable and smooth supply chains, optimize and upgrade them, and enhance the resilience of regional production networks. We must adhere to strengthening exchanges and mutual learning, expanding the scale of cultural exchanges, facilitating personnel exchanges, and enhancing understanding and friendship among the people of the three countries, especially young people. We must adhere to enhancing development resilience, increase exchanges and cooperation in areas such as addressing aging, work together to address climate change, and create new growth points. We must adhere to promoting common development, continue to adhere to the principles of voluntariness, equality, openness, win-win, transparency, and sustainability, and create more "China Japan South Korea+X" cooperation projects with neighboring countries and regions in need, to promote common and sustainable development both inside and outside the region. Park Zhen and Yoko Uesugawa positively evaluated the progress made in cooperation between China, Japan, and South Korea, believing that the three countries are inseparable neighbors and that cooperation between the three countries is of great significance and enormous potential. In the face of the new situation, the three countries should revisit the original intention of cooperation, strengthen communication and exchange, promote cooperation in various fields, and bring more visible results to the people of the three countries. The three parties can engage in future oriented substantive cooperation in areas such as economy and trade, technology and digital transformation, cultural exchanges, environmental protection, and aging, continuously expanding common interests. Cooperation between China, Japan, and South Korea can surpass Northeast Asia and play a positive role in promoting regional and global peace and prosperity. Actively promoting "China Japan South Korea+X" cooperation with an open attitude, benefiting more countries and regions. Three parties agree to create a meeting for the leaders of China, Japan, and South Korea
Edit:He Chuanning Responsible editor:Su Suiyue
Source:Xinhua
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