CHINA – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Kazakhstan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Murat Nurtleu, Tajikistan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sirojiddin Muhriddin and Uzbekistan’s Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov, respectively, after the fifth China-Central Asia Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in southwest China’s Chengdu on Sunday. When meeting with Nurtleu, Wang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said China and Kazakhstan are permanent friendly neighbors with geographical proximity, shared ideas and close people-to-people ties.

Deepening cooperation in an all-round way conforms to the common interests of the two countries and the common expectations of the two peoples, Wang said. He called on the two sides to fully deliver on the major common understandings between the two countries’ leaders, consolidate political mutual trust, firmly support each other, jointly promote high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, make progress in the building of the China-Kazakhstan community with a shared future, and advance their respective modernization efforts. Nurtleu said Kazakhstan appreciates China’s support for Central Asian countries in safeguarding national sovereignty and independence, and regards China as a reliable and permanent comprehensive strategic partner and a diplomatic priority. (Xinhua)

Photo: Minister Wang Yi Minister of Foreign Affairs of China. (Wikipedia)