China-Bangladesh-Pakistan in their meeting held in Kunming, Yunnan province of China exchanged views extensively on trilateral cooperation. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong, Bangladeshi Acting Foreign Secretary Ruhul Alam Siddique and Pakistani Additional Secretary (Asia Pacific) Imran Ahmed Siddiqui attended the meeting.

Pakistani Foreign Secretary Amna Baloch participated in the first phase of the meeting via video link, Foreign Ministry of China reported on Friday. Sun Weidong stated that the Chinese government is committed to building a community with a shared future with neighboring countries.

Bangladesh and Pakistan are both good neighbors, good friends, and good partners of China, and important partners in high quality Belt and Road cooperation. As significant members of the Global South and key countries in the region, all three countries face the mission of national revitalization and modernization, and all require a peaceful and stable environment.

Cooperation among China, Pakistan and Bangladesh aligns with the common interests of the three peoples, and can contribute to regional peace, stability, development and prosperity. The three sides agreed to advance trilateral cooperation based on the principles of good-neighborliness, equality and mutual trust, openness and inclusiveness, common development, and win-win cooperation.

China-Bangladesh-Pakistan trilateral cooperation focuses on promoting economic development and improving people’s livelihoods. The three sides agreed to explore and implement cooperation projects in such areas as industry, trade, maritime affairs, water resources, climate change, agriculture, human resources, think tanks, health, education, culture, and youth. The three sides will establish a working group to follow up and implement the understandings reached during the meeting.

The three sides emphasized that China-Bangladesh-Pakistan cooperation adheres to true multilateralism and open regionalism, not directed at any third party. In Kunming, Sun Weidong also called on Mr. Haji Mawlawi Abdul Salam Hanafi, Acting Deputy Prime Minister of the interim government of Afghan, and held bilateral meetings with Mr. Ruhul Alam Siddique and Mr. Imran Ahmed Siddiqui. 

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP) — Pak-China