Chinese FM sends congratulations to new Pakistani counterpart

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French.china.org.cn | Updated on 08-05-2022
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Wang Yi, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister, on April 29 sent a congratulatory message to Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on his appointment as Pakistani Foreign Minister.

In his message, Wang stressed that China and Pakistan are unique strategic cooperative partners regardless of the circumstances, adding that China-Pakistan friendship, under the careful guidance of successive senior leaders of the two countries and with the full support of their people, has withstood the test of the changing international landscape and still stands as rock solid, showing ever-stronger resilience and vitality.

The rock-solid Sino-Pakistani friendship has become the most valuable strategic asset of the two countries, noted the head of Chinese diplomacy.

At present, peace and development in the world are confronted with ever more factors of insecurity and instability, because the major changes not known in the world for a century are aggravated by a pandemic which does not produced only once a century and new fallout from the Ukraine crisis, he said, adding that China-Pakistan relations are of growing strategic importance.

No matter how the international situation develops, China will always give priority to Pakistan in its neighborhood diplomacy and firmly support it in safeguarding national sovereignty, security and dignity, upholding solidarity, the pursuit of development, revitalization and prosperity, as well as its greater role in international and regional arenas, Wang said.

He also said that his Pakistani counterpart visited the Chinese Embassy in Pakistan on the same day of his inauguration to express his condolences following the terrorist attack on the Confucius Institute at the University of Karachi, thus demonstrating the great importance that the Pakistani government and itself attach to maintaining the traditional friendship between China and Pakistan.

Wang said he is willing to work together with Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to implement the important consensuses reached by the leaders of the two countries, push forward traditional bilateral friendship, consolidate political mutual trust, deepen pragmatic cooperation. in various fields, including the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, and enhance coordination and cooperation between the two countries in international and regional affairs, so as to make new contributions to building a more China-Pakistan community with a shared future. close in the new era.