Beijing, 3 Mar (Xinhua) -- On 28 March, President Xi Jinping had a telephone conversation with Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Mohammed.
Xi Jinping asked Mohammed to convey his best wishes to King Salman and send Ramadan greetings. Xi Jinping pointed out that at present, China-Saudi Arabia relations are in the best period in history. At the end of last year, I paid a successful state visit to Saudi Arabia, and we successfully held the first China-Arab States Summit and the China-Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Riyadh, which strongly promoted the development of China-Saudi Arabia relations, promoted China's relations with the GCC and Arab countries, and had a positive impact on the situation in the Middle East. China is willing to work with Saudi Arabia to implement the outcomes of the "Three Ring Summit", continue to firmly support each other on issues involving each other's core interests, expand practical cooperation and people-to-people exchanges, promote greater development of the China-Saudi Arabia comprehensive strategic partnership, make every effort to build a China-Arab community with a shared future facing the new era, and make more contributions to promoting peace, stability and development in the Middle East.
Xi Jinping pointed out that recently, with the joint efforts of China, Saudi Arabia and Iran, the dialogue between Saudi Arabia and Iran in Beijing was successfully held and achieved major results, which will help the two countries improve relations, and has a major demonstration effect on strengthening unity and cooperation among regional countries and easing regional tensions, which has been widely praised by the international community. Recently, the momentum of détente between countries in the region has increased significantly, which fully shows that resolving contradictions and differences through dialogue and consultation conforms to the will of the people and conforms to the trend of the times and the interests of all countries. It is hoped that the two sides will uphold the spirit of good-neighborliness and friendship and continuously improve their relations on the basis of the results of the dialogue in Beijing. China is ready to continue to support the follow-up process of the Shah-Iraq dialogue.
Mohammed conveyed King Salman's greetings to Xi Jinping and once again extended warm congratulations to Xi Jinping on his re-election as president. Mohammed said that Saudi Arabia sincerely thanked China for its strong support for Saudi Arabia and Iran to improve relations, which fully demonstrates China's role as a responsible major country. China is playing an increasingly important and constructive role in regional and international affairs, which Saudi Arabia highly appreciates. China is an important partner of Saudi Arabia. The Saudi side attaches great importance to the development of relations with China and is willing to work with China to open up new prospects for cooperation between the two countries.