Chinese FM says Beijing committed to making world safer

Yi urges sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries to be respected for global safety

MUNICH:

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, delivering a keynote address at the 59th Munich Security Conference, stated that making the world a safer place was China’s abiding commitment.

Yi maintained that as the world stood at “a critical juncture of history, human society must not repeat the old path of antagonism, division and confrontation, and must not fall into the trap of zero-sum game, war and conflict”.

“Making the world a safer place is the strong desire of all people, the common responsibility of all countries, and more importantly, the right direction for the advance of our times”.

He furthered that for a safer world, all countries' sovereignty and territorial integrity must be respected. Yi added that power politics and hegemony were “a recipe for global instability and do the biggest damage to global peace”.

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“Any violation of the one-China principle on the Taiwan question, and attempt to create 'one China, one Taiwan' or 'two Chinas', however, framed, are a gross infringement on China’s territorial integrity, and pose real threats to peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait”.

He reiterated that the “principle of sovereignty is the cornerstone of the contemporary international order”.

The Chinese foreign minister added that regarding the Ukraine issue, China stood for talks for peace and would put forth its proposition on the political settlement of the Ukraine crisis.

He urged that disputes should be peacefully resolved through dialogue and consultation and that the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter should be upheld for a safer world.