BEIJING:A spokesperson of Chinese Foreign Ministry Hua Chunying on Tuesday said at a regular news briefing that the China-Russia-Pakistan trilateral meeting taking place in Moscow is a good omen, hoping that it will help to promote peace and development in the region.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry’s Special Envoy for Afghan Affairs Deng Xijun travelled to Russia for a China-Russia-Pakistan trilateral consultation on the Afghan issue on December 27.
China consistently supports the Afghan peace reconciliation process led and owned by the Afghan people, and maintains that peace negotiation is the only way out of the Afghan issue.
“We stand ready to play a constructive role to this end as we always do”, the spokesperson added. About the success of Chinese diplomacy in 2016, she said the largest developing country in the world; we are certainly not the most economically powerful yet. “Thanks to our relations with other countries featuring mutual respect, equal treatment and win-win cooperation based on the five principles of peaceful coexistence, China’s diplomacy is projecting a proactive and pioneering landscape.” At the same time, China has the resolve and capability to safeguard its own core interests.
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