BEIJING, CMC—Chinese language President Xi Jinping held talks with the visiting Surinamese President, Chandrikapersad Santokhi, on Friday, underscoring the lengthy historical past of friendship between the Asian nation and the Dutch-speaking Caribbean Group (CARICOM) nation.
Based on the official China Information Company, Xinhua, President Xi stated Suriname was one of many first Caribbean international locations to ascertain diplomatic ties with China, develop a strategic partnership with China, and signal the Belt and Highway cooperation plan with China.
He stated the 2 international locations have all the time revered one another and handled one another as equals, changing into a mannequin of South-South cooperation. Beijing is prepared to work with Suriname to additional consolidate political mutual belief, strengthen financial and commerce cooperation, broaden cultural and people-to-people exchanges, and step up worldwide coordination.
President Xi stated China is prepared to push for a more in-depth China-Suriname strategic cooperative partnership to learn the 2 peoples higher.
He stated that China extremely appreciates Suriname’s friendship and its agency assist for China on points regarding China’s core pursuits and main issues. Beijing additionally firmly helps Suriname in safeguarding its nationwide sovereignty and independence and independently selecting a growth path suited to its nationwide situations.
“China welcomes extra high-quality and distinctive Surinamese merchandise to enter the Chinese language market and stands able to deepen cooperation with Suriname on joint Belt and Highway development, improve synergy of growth methods, and broaden cooperation on commerce, funding, agriculture, vitality, mining, infrastructure development, and digital economic system to carry extra tangible advantages to the 2 peoples,” Xi stated.
Noting that Suriname has the very best variety of abroad Chinese language within the Caribbean and was the primary nation within the Western Hemisphere to mark the Chinese language New 12 months as an official vacation, Xi stated the 2 sides ought to proceed to encourage cultural and people-to-people exchanges, facilitate personnel exchanges, and collectively construct Confucius Institutes.
He added that the 2 international locations ought to strengthen sub-national cooperation and always enrich the content material of bilateral exchanges and cooperation.
Xi stated China is able to work with Suriname and different growing international locations to strengthen multilateral coordination, solidarity, and cooperation, safeguard frequent pursuits, obtain joint growth, and promote constructing a neighborhood with a shared future for humanity.
He stated China attaches significance to growing relations with Caribbean international locations, helps Caribbean international locations in looking for prosperity and growth and bettering folks’s well-being, and stands able to proceed to help within the financial and social growth of nations within the area inside its capability.
Santokhi, the second CARICOM chief to go to inside a month, spoke of the “necessary contributions” made by the Chinese language neighborhood in Suriname to the nation’s growth.
He stated that because the two international locations established diplomatic ties 48 years in the past, Suriname has all the time firmly adhered to the one-China precept and can proceed to assist China unswervingly in its endeavor to attain nationwide reunification.
Santokhi expressed Suriname’s appreciation for the help supplied by the Chinese language facet to its financial and social growth, saying that the fruitful cooperation between the 2 international locations in agriculture, well being, infrastructure, and different fields displays the high-level political mutual belief and brotherly friendship. It improved Suriname’s economic system and folks’s livelihoods, setting a superb instance of South-South cooperation.
Santokhi stated Suriname helps the necessary initiatives proposed by China, such because the Belt and Highway Initiative and the World Growth Initiative, that are of nice significance in upholding multilateralism and selling world peace and sustainable growth and stands able to advance coordination with China to collectively promote the constructing of a neighborhood with a shared future for humanity.
He stated that Suriname expects to enhance exchanges between the political events of the 2 international locations, broaden cooperation in fields reminiscent of commerce, economic system and funding, inexperienced growth, and local weather change, and advance the Suriname-China strategic cooperative partnership, and is prepared to contribute to Caribbean-China relations.
The 2 heads of state witnessed the signing of bilateral cooperation paperwork on the economic system, commerce, funding, inexperienced growth, digital economic system, training, and different fields.
In the meantime, China’s high political advisor, Wang Huning, additionally met with President Santokhi on Friday.
Wang, chairman of the Nationwide Committee of the Chinese language Folks’s Political Consultative Convention (CPPCC), famous that the 2 international locations have all the time revered one another, handled one another as equals in mutually useful cooperation, and understood and supported one another’s core pursuits and main issues.
Wang stated China stands able to work with Suriname to implement the consensus reached by the 2 heads of state, repeatedly consolidate political mutual belief, strengthen financial and commerce cooperation, deepen people-to-people and cultural exchanges, strengthen worldwide coordination, and push for extra achievements in bilateral strategic cooperative partnership.
He stated that the CPPCC Nationwide Committee is able to contribute positively to this finish.
Santokhi stated Suriname abides by the one-China precept and is prepared to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with the CPPCC Nationwide Committee and promote additional growth of bilateral pleasant relations.
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