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03/08/2019

China attaches great importance to cooperation with UN: envoy

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Zhang Jun (R), China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, speaks to journalists at the UN headquarters in New York, Aug. 2, 2019. Zhang Jun said Friday that China attaches great importance to its cooperation with the United Nations while meeting with reporters from major international media at the UN headquarters in New York. (Xinhua/Li Muzi)

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) — A Chinese envoy said Friday that China attaches great importance to its cooperation with the United Nations while meeting with reporters from major international media at the UN headquarters in New York.

“We attach great importance to our cooperation with the United Nations, and everything goes well,” Zhang Jun, China’s permanent representative to the UN, told reporters from The Associated Press (AP), Reuters, Bloomberg News, and others.

The ambassador stated that China will “stand firm” with the United Nations and “give strong support” to the organization “by defending multilateralism and supporting an international system with the United Nations at its center.”

He also said that China will support “an international order on the basis of international law and the purposes and the principles of the UN Charter.”

As one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, “China will continue to play a responsible and a constructive role in addressing global political and security issues,” he said.

Noting that the world is “far from being peaceful,” the envoy said that China will continue to work hard on issues including in the Middle East and in other parts of the world.

In general, he said, China will continue to promote peace “through diplomatic means and political dialogues,” adding it will always be China’s basic position.

“We will try our best to be helpful and to be contributing more to world peace and security,” he noted. “China will continue to be positively engaged in peacekeeping operations for that purpose.”

Zhang started his role as China’s new permanent representative to the UN earlier this week.

Source: Xinhua

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19/05/2019

Cooperation only right choice for China, U.S.: Chinese envoy

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Ma Zhaoxu (C, front), China’s permanent representative to the United Nations (UN), hosts a briefing on the U.S.-China trade relations at the UN headquarters in New York, May 17, 2019. Cooperation is the only right choice for China and the United States, said Ma Zhaoxu on Friday. (Xinhua/Ma Jianguo)

UNITED NATIONS, May 18 (Xinhua) — Cooperation is the only right choice for China and the United States, said China’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) Ma Zhaoxu on Friday.

The economic and trade relations between China and the United States are the “ballast” and “propeller” of this important bilateral relationship, said the Chinese envoy when hosting a briefing on the U.S.-China trade relations at the UN headquarters in New York, adding that it is not only about U.S.-China bilateral relations but also world peace and prosperity.

Representatives from more than 100 UN member states and international agencies attended the meeting.

Referring to the consultations between the two countries since the United States unilaterally provoked the frictions in March 2018, Ma said that China will resolutely defend its core interests and will never give in on major issues of principle.

China strongly opposes the U.S. practice of imposing additional tariffs, said the Chinese envoy, while expressing the hope that the United States and China could work together, meet each other in the halfway, address each other’s concern based on mutual respect and equality, and strive for a mutually beneficial agreement.

“The agreement between the two sides must be equal-footed and mutually beneficial,” he said, noting that China’s three core concerns — remove all the additional tariffs, work out a realistic amount of purchases, and improve the balance of the wording of the text — must be addressed.

The Chinese economy has maintained steady growth and has shown positive momentum, Ma told the audience. “The trade protectionist measures of the United States will have an impact on the Chinese economy, but it can be overcome.”

“The Chinese economy is a sea, not a small pond,” he added. “We will continue to promote reform and opening up according to our own pace, and promote high-quality development of the economy according to our own timetable and road map, to realize the long-term stability and growth of the Chinese economy.”

According to Ma, paying mutual respect to each other’s core concerns, and making mutual concessions on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit are the premises of expanding cooperation, and only in such a way, the trade issues between the two sides could be resolved.

Source: Xinhua

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08/05/2019

Real needs of troops-contributing countries must be tended: Chinese envoy

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China’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ma Zhaoxu (Front) addresses a Security Council open debate on “Investing in Peace: Delivering Quality Training and Capacity Building to Improve Safety and Security and Performance of UN Peacekeepers” at the UN headquarters in New York, on May 7, 2019. Ma Zhaoxu said Tuesday that the international community must pay attention to the real needs of troops-contributing countries (TCCs) in peacekeeping. (Xinhua/Li Muzi)

UNITED NATIONS, May 7 (Xinhua) — A Chinese envoy said Tuesday that the international community must pay attention to the real needs of troops-contributing countries (TCCs) in peacekeeping.

“The international community must pay attention to the real needs of TCCs, in particular, those of developing countries, enhance capacity building in the area of peacekeeping and ensure the availability of targeted training and resources,” Ma Zhaoxu, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, told the Security Council open debate on “Investing in Peace: Delivering Quality Training and Capacity Building to Improve Safety and Security and Performance of UN Peacekeepers.”

“Thorough and effective training and capacity building must be conducted to keep improving the safety, security and performance of peacekeepers,” said the Chinese ambassador.

As for the role of the Secretariat, the Chinese envoy noted that efforts must be made to “fully leverage the role of the Secretariat. The Secretariat should keep improving training policies for peacekeeping and provide updated training materials in a timely manner in light of the situation in the task areas,” said Ma.

“The Secretariat, on the basis of its own advantages, can play a coordinating role between the supply and demand in the area of capacity building for peacekeeping,” he said.

Source: Xinhua

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19/03/2019

Chinese envoy calls for helping DRC with security capacity-building

UNITED NATIONS, March 18 (Xinhua) — A Chinese envoy on Monday urged the international community to help the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with its security capacity-building.

“The current focus should be put on helping the DRC to enhance its security capacity-building, supporting the effort of the DRC government to maintain peace and stability,” Wu Haitao, the charge d’affaires of China’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, told the Security Council meeting on the situation in the DRC.

The international community should “fully respect the sovereignty and independence and territorial integrity of the DRC,” Wu said, adding that it should also “fully respect the ownership and leadership of the DRC government in handling its own affairs, strengthen communication with the DRC government, and help the DRC to resolve its challenges in humanitarian, security, development and other fields.”

The Chinese envoy also called on the world to continue supporting regional and sub-regional organizations in playing their roles to facilitate and strengthen interactions between the parties within the DRC government to advance the implementation of the peace security and cooperation framework for the DRC and the Great Lakes Region, so as to jointly contribute to the realization of peace and stability in the DRC and a wider region.

“International partners should help with the DRC’s effort to make sure that armed groups in the DRC to abandon the military solution and instead resolve the issues through dialogue and consultation,” he added.

Wu also said that efforts must be made to “continue providing necessary humanitarian assistance and economic support to the DRC government.”

“International partners should focus on increasing input in education, healthcare, infrastructure and other areas, help the DRC to increase employment, improve people’s life, and restore economic and social development,” he said.

“We hope bodies such as UN Development Programme and UN Environment Programme can play a bigger role,” he added.

“The international community should continue actively responding to the DRC’s humanitarian assistance appeal, support the activities of the World Health Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross and help contain the Ebola outbreak.

Noting that MONUSCO, the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC, is “indispensable” to peace and stability in the country, Wu said that China supports the extension of its mandate.

“We hope MONUSCO can continue its activities according to its mandate to help the DRC realize peace stability and development,” he said.

“In the meantime, we hope the (UN) Secretariat, the DRC government and the troop-contributing countries can engage in communication, and in view of the development, conduct timely review and put forward proposals of adjustment to MONUSCO mandate, so as to ensure a step-by-step and orderly handover of security responsibilities from MONUSCO to the DRC security forces,” said the envoy.

China is ready to work with the wider international community to continue contributing to the DRC’s efforts to achieve early peace, stability and development, Wu noted.

Leila Zerrougui, the UN secretary-general’s special representative for the DRC, briefed the Security Council on the situation in the DRC.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Feb. 15 submitted to the President of the Security Council an update on the situation in the DRC.

The update, which covers developments in the DRC from Jan. 1 to 31, was submitted pursuant to Resolution 2409 (2018), in which the Security Council requested the secretary-general to provide a written update every 30 days on political and technical progress towards the holding of elections in the DRC and on obstacles to the implementation of the political agreement of Dec. 31, 2016.

Source: Xinhua

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