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- China, S. Korea, Japan pledge to promote common cooperation, regional stability
Date: 4-Jun-2007 Sources: (Xinhua Online)
The foreign ministers of South Korea, China and Japan met here Sunday to discuss future cooperation, pledging to promote common development and safeguard regional peace and stability.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said that the three Asian countries have shared interests, needs, responsibilities and objectives in terms of maintaining a peaceful Asia, promoting common development and building harmony in the region.
With a strategic focus, the three nations should seize the opportunity to improve trilateral ties and expand cooperation and exchanges, he said.
If the three nations could settle disputes through dialogue they would become mutually beneficial and win-win partners, who enjoy shared interests and development opportunities in the joint efforts of revitalizing Asia and realizing peace, development, cooperation and harmony around the world.
The three foreign ministers agreed that strengthened trilateral ties between South Korea, China and Japan are of great significance to safeguarding the peace and stability of the region and promoting common development since the three are all influential countries in Asia.
During the meeting, the three ministers pledged to promote mutual political trust and intensify reciprocal cooperation so as to play a constructive role in solving major regional and international issues.
They also agreed to bolster trilateral exchanges and cooperation in such areas as investment, energy, aviation, environmental protection, climate change, culture and the media.
While discussing the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula and security in northeast Asia, the three ministers reiterated their hope of achieving denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula and promoting the six-party talks, which also involve the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Russia and the United States.
They also called for an early resolution to the DRPK funds issue involving Macao-based Banco Delta Asia.
On the same day, Yang also met separately with his South Korean counterpart Song Min-soon and Japan's Taro Aso on regional and international issues of common concern on the southern South Korean resort island.
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