Chinanews.com, Beijing, January 11. On January 10 local time, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang and Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demek jointly met the press.
Qin Gang said that Ethiopia is an important and influential African country and a major developing country, and it is also an important cooperative partner of China in Africa.
Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries more than 50 years ago, no matter how the international situation changes, the friendship between China and Ethiopia has always been unbreakable and will grow stronger over time.
In recent years, under the strategic guidance of the leaders of the two countries, China-Ethiopia relations have maintained high-level development, and practical cooperation in various fields has yielded fruitful results.
During the visit, I called on Prime Minister Abiy and held talks with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demek. The two sides reached a high degree of consensus and agreed that:
We need to consolidate and deepen political mutual trust, and be firm and mutually supportive partners on issues concerning each other's core interests and major concerns.
It is necessary to deepen the docking of development strategies, expand practical cooperation, better leverage the economic and social benefits of the flagship projects of cooperation between the two countries such as the Algeria-Djibouti Railway, strive to expand the scale of bilateral trade and investment, deepen mutual benefit and win-win results, and be partners for common development.
China encourages more Chinese companies to actively participate in Ethiopia's reconstruction.
Strengthen coordination in multilateral affairs and jointly address global challenges.
China supports Ethiopia in playing a greater role in international and regional affairs, and is willing to closely communicate and cooperate with Ethiopia to be a partner in jointly safeguarding international fairness and justice.
Qin Gang said that China-Ethiopia relations are ushering in new development opportunities and broad prospects.
The Chinese side is willing to work with the Ethiopian side to promote the traditional friendship between China and Ethiopia to produce more fruitful results, so as to benefit the two countries and the two peoples.
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