Reference News Network, July 28 report: According to the website of Singapore's "Straits Times" on July 28, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on July 28 that China and South Korea should deepen mutually beneficial cooperation.
According to comprehensive media reports, Wang Yi spoke by phone with South Korea's new Foreign Minister Zhao Xian on July 28. The two sides exchanged views on the development of bilateral relations and coordination and cooperation in multilateral fields.
Wang Yi said that China and South Korea should be true strategic partners and promote bilateral relations to a higher level. China has always attached importance to developing Sino-Korean cooperation and hopes that South Korea's policy toward China will also be stable, sustainable, and predictable, avoiding fluctuations.
Wang Yi emphasized that both sides should deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, achieve common development, jointly oppose "de-coupling and cutting off the supply chain," and maintain the stability and smoothness of the global supply chain.
Zhao Xian said that South Korea is willing to actively promote the bilateral free trade negotiations and deepen Sino-Korean economic and trade cooperation.
This was Zhao Xian's first call with Wang Yi after taking office.
According to another report by Yonhap News Agency on July 28, the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the top-level diplomats of South Korea and China held their first telephone conversation on July 28, agreeing to work together to make the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Informal Meeting a "new turning point" for bilateral relations.
The South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement saying that during the telephone conversation, Foreign Minister Zhao Xian exchanged views with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, committed to advancing the bilateral strategic partnership in a "steady and mature" way.
The statement said that they agreed to work together to ensure that the APEC Leaders' Informal Meeting to be held in Gyeongju is a new turning point for bilateral relations and to achieve practical results that the people of both countries can feel through pragmatic cooperation.
Both sides agreed to maintain the positive momentum of bilateral relations through high-level exchanges.
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Informal Meeting will be held in Gyeongju, a city in southeastern South Korea, from October 31 to November 1. (Translated by Qiu Fang)
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