(International Observation) What has been brought about by the 50-year cooperation between China and the United Nations?
China News Service, Beijing, September 23. Title: What has China and the United Nations brought about in 50 years of cooperation?
China News Agency reporter Bo Wenwen
In 1971, the 26th United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 2758 by an overwhelming majority, deciding to restore all legal rights of the People’s Republic of China in the United Nations.
What does it mean for China to return to the United Nations?
How to evaluate the 50-year cooperation between China and the United Nations?
What does multilateralism mean to the world today?
Liu Xinsheng, executive director of the United Nations Association of China and an expert on the Advisory Committee of the United Nations Human Rights Council, said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Agency that this historic event is of great significance to China and the world. The 50-year cooperation between China and the United Nations can be regarded as a model of multilateralism. .
What does China's return to the United Nations mean for the United Nations and China?
Liu Xinsheng stated that the restoration of the People's Republic of China to its legal seat in the United Nations is a historic event of extraordinary significance, both in the history of the development of the United Nations and the history of China's diplomacy.
"For the United Nations, ignoring the existence of China, or adopting a blockade policy or a hostile attitude toward China like some Western countries do is unfair to the entire world and the United Nations, and there is no way out," Liu Xinsheng pointed out. Without China, the United Nations cannot become the United Nations.
"It would be unthinkable without a country with such a large population and a country that plays a pivotal role in international relations."
"The same is true for China." Liu Xinsheng said that at that time, China's diplomacy had actually begun to gradually go global, establishing diplomatic relations with many developing countries and some Western countries.
China's return to the United Nations and the restoration of all its legal rights in the United Nations will not only further enhance China's international influence and status, but will also have a positive effect on China's domestic political development and the further adoption of an open foreign policy.
How to evaluate the half-century cooperation between China and the United Nations?
Liu Xinsheng believes that the cooperation between China and the United Nations is "comprehensive, in-depth, and mutually supportive." Such cooperation has actually set a model for multilateralism and cooperation between countries and the United Nations.
"The cooperation between China and the United Nations is gradually developing." Liu Xinsheng said that from the first focus on international peace and security, after China has gradually embarked on the road of reform, opening up and economic development, it has paid special attention to economic and social development issues. On the one hand, the United Nations has provided many opportunities and experiences for China's reform and opening up and foreign economic cooperation.
Liu Xinsheng said that China has also given important support to the economic and social development of the United Nations. China is an active participant and important contributor to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
China is currently working hard on the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and is carrying out corresponding supporting plans at home.
"China has also made important contributions to the United Nations in such areas as peacekeeping, disarmament, and international human rights protection. In particular, China has also given a lot of sincere and fruitful assistance and support to the development of African countries. This kind of cooperation follows the Belt and Road Initiative. The proposal and implementation will be further deepened." Liu Xinsheng pointed out.
At present, the new crown epidemic is still raging around the world, and the world is standing at the crossroads of history.
How do you view the significance of multilateralism to the world today?
Liu Xinsheng stated that since the founding of New China, it has always advocated the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and multilateralism. Under the banner of the United Nations, all member states jointly formulate international rules, jointly manage global affairs, and share the fruits of development.
"This idea has been inherited from the older generation of revolutionaries. Today, as the challenges facing the international community become more and more complex and severe, holding high the banner of multilateralism has more and more practical significance and far-reaching influence."
Liu Xinsheng believes that multilateralism has a very important and fundamental role in today's world.
Supporting multilateralism and supporting the unique role of the United Nations in resolving international affairs is in line with the characteristics of current international relations and the international community, especially in responding to global issues such as peace, development, human rights, environment, health, etc., which are of common concern and faced by human society And challenges.
"Supporting multilateralism actually means further cooperation with the United Nations. In the future operations of the United Nations, it will increasingly prove that multilateralism is the right choice."
Looking forward to the next 50 years, Liu Xinsheng said that China can sum up China’s successful experience in maintaining the role of the United Nations and promoting the improvement of global governance, share it with other countries, and participate more actively in the consultation, decision-making and implementation of global governance. , To make China's due contribution to the international community's progress towards fairness and the realization of a community with a shared future for mankind.
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