Beijing-Sana
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi stressed the importance of developed countries fulfilling their development assistance pledges and increasing support to other countries in finance and technology, calling for building an equal and balanced global development partnership.
All parties should honor their commitments, achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals on schedule, oppose the politicization and marginalization of the development issue, continue to focus on key areas that are most important to developing countries, and redouble efforts to raise living standards around the world.
Wang called for creating an environment conducive to accelerating global development, improving the global governance system at a faster pace, increasing the representation of emerging markets and developing countries, and building an open world economy, noting the importance of preserving the right of people of all countries to choose their own development paths and opposing interference in other countries' internal affairs and baseless unilateral sanctions. in international law.
The implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the greatest consensus on global development, Wang said, adding that "it should remain a priority on the international cooperation agenda." China will strengthen consultations with other emerging markets and developing countries and hold a high-level meeting on global development to discuss ways to enhance It will also increase its contribution to development and its support to the South/South Cooperation Assistance Fund and the China-United Nations Peace and Development Fund.
The Chinese minister stressed that his country will continue to build on consensus to establish a set of global development initiative projects in which all parties will participate. It will issue a global development report to enhance international exchanges and exchange of development knowledge.
The Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative was launched by the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations in January of this year and held a virtual meeting on the ninth of this month.