Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 20th. State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a video conference with special foreign ministers on China-Japan-Korea New Crown Pneumonia with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Jinghe and Japanese Foreign Minister Mogi Tomoki.
Wang Yi expressed his gratitude to the ROK and Japan for responding to China's initiative to jointly hold the special foreign ministers' meeting on China-Japan-ROK New Crown Pneumonia. This demonstrates the firm determination of the three countries to unite and cooperate in the face of major challenges and overcome the difficulties together, and demonstrates our positive willingness to work together to overcome the epidemic and to maintain normal exchanges and cooperation.
Wang Yi said that in the face of the sudden outbreak of new crown pneumonia, China, Japan and South Korea watched each other and help each other together, writing a moving chapter in the exotic mountains and rivers. At the beginning of the outbreak, South Korea and Japan reached out to China as soon as possible. With regard to the recent epidemic in South Korea and Japan, the Chinese government and people empathize with each other, and have offered support and assistance to the South Korean and Japanese parties within their capacity. "Not far from the road, people have no foreign country", "Along with the mountains, sharing the wind and rain" has become a vivid portrayal of the friendship and mutual assistance between China, Japan, and South Korea in the recent period.
Wang Yi said that China, Japan, and South Korea are close neighbors with a strip of water, and their interests are deeply integrated, and personnel exchanges are close. Strengthening cooperation and tiding over difficulties together is an inevitable choice for China, Japan and South Korea. China looks forward to sharing the experience of fighting the epidemic with South Korea and Japan through this foreign ministerial meeting, strengthening policy communication, and reaching a valuable consensus on cooperation.