China stands ready to lift the bilateral relations to a new high through close cooperation with Sri Lanka,and promote the strategic synergy of the Belt and Road initiative with Sri Lanka’s ‘Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour, Sri Lanka foreign ministry announced.
The partnership of the two countries will continue to support each other on issues involving each other’s core interests, unequivocally oppose unilateralism and hegemony, and jointly protect the common interests of developing countries.
Vice Foreign Minister of China Ambassador Luo Zhaohui quoted in the ministry release as saying that the among the the aims of China are to accelerate economic recovery, expand bilateral economic and trade exchanges, and advance industrial park, port, logistic and other industrial cooperation.
He was speaking at the 11th round of the diplomatic consultations between China and Sri Lanka virtually with Foreign Secretary Admiral Prof. Jayanath Colombage in attendance recently.
Ambassador of China to Sri Lanka Qi Zhenhong and Charge d'Affairs of the Sri Lankan Embassy in Beijing K. K. Yoganaadan also attended the consultations, respectively, from Colombo and Beijing.
China will take measures to tighten cultural and people-to-people ties, and step up exchanges in education, think tanks, tourism, environmental protection and other fields while strengthening law enforcement and security cooperation.
It will expand cooperation in counter-terrorism, Belt and Road security and combating of transnational crime, and jointly safeguard the stability of the two countries and the region.
China will continue to support each other on issues involving each other’s core interests, unequivocally oppose unilateralism and hegemony, and jointly protect the common interests of developing countries.
The two countries have agreed to strengthen law enforcement and security cooperation, expand cooperation in counter-terrorism, Belt and Road security and combating of transnational crime, and jointly safeguard the stability of the two countries and the region.
(LIN)