President Xi Jinping attended the first China-Arab Summit

President Xi Jinping attended the first China-Arab Summit and delivered a keynote speech.

Emphasize the promotion of the Sino-Arab friendship spirit of helping each other, equality and mutual benefit, tolerance and learning, and work together to build a China-Arab community
of destiny for the new era.

On the afternoon of December 9 local time, the first China-Arab Summit was held at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. President Xi Jinping attended the summit and delivered a keynote speech entitled "Promoting the spirit of China-Arab friendship and working together to build a China-Arab community of destiny for a new era". Xinhua News Agency
 

On the afternoon of December 9 local time, the first China-Arab Summit was held at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. President Xi Jinping and Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed, Egyptian President Sisi, King Abdullah II of Jordan, King Hamad of Bahrain, Crown Prince of Kuwait, President Said of Tunisia, President Gayle of Djibouti, Palestinian President Abbas, Emir Tamim of Qatar, President Azali Leaders of 21 Arab League countries, including President Ghazwani of Mauritania, Prime Minister Sudani of Iraq, Prime Minister Ahnush of Morocco, Prime Minister Abdulrahman of Algeria, Prime Minister Mikati of Lebanon, and heads of international organizations such as Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Gheit, attended the summit. President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech entitled "Promoting the spirit of Sino-Arab friendship and working together to build a community of destiny between China and Afghanistan facing the new era" at the meeting. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi

Riyadh, December 9 (Reporters Du Shanze, Guan Kejiang) On the afternoon of December 9, local time, the first China-Arab Summit was held at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. The summit issued the Riyadh Declaration of the First China-Arab Summit, announcing that China and Afghanistan agreed to make every effort to build a community of destiny between China and Afghanistan facing the new era.

President Xi Jinping and Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed, Egyptian President Sisi, King Abdullah II of Jordan, King Hamad of Bahrain, Crown Prince of Kuwait, President Said of Tunisia, President Gayle of Djibouti, Palestinian President Abbas, Emir Tamim of Qatar, President Azali Leaders of 21 Arab League countries, including President Ghazwani of Mauritania, Prime Minister Sudani of Iraq, Prime Minister Ahnush of Morocco, Prime Minister Abdulrahman of Algeria, Prime Minister Mikati of Lebanon, and heads of international organizations such as Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Gheit, attended the summit.

President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech entitled "Promoting the spirit of Sino-Arab friendship and working together to build a China-Arab community of destiny for a new era" at the meeting.

President Xi Jinping pointed out that the friendly exchanges between China and Arab countries have a long history. They know each other in the ancient Silk Road, share difficulties in the struggle for national liberation, cooperate for a win-win situation in the wave of economic globalization, adhere to morality in the changes of the world, and condensed into the Sino-Arab friendship of "watch and help, equality and mutual benefit, tolerance and learning". Spirit. Watching and helping each other is a distinctive feature of Sino-Arab friendship. China and Afghanistan trust each other, firmly support each other on issues involving each other's core interests, and the strategic partnership is unbreakable. Equality and mutual benefit are the inexhaustible driving force of China-Arab friendship. China and Afghanistan are mutually beneficial and win-win, and set a model of South-South cooperation. Tolerance and mutual learning is the friendly value orientation of China and Afghanistan. China and Afghanistan appreciate each other, learn from each other, jointly advocate dialogue among civilizations, and protect the diversity of world civilizations.

President Xi Jinping stressed that at present, the world has entered a new period of turbulent change, and new and profound changes are taking place in the Middle East. The Arab people's desire for peace and development is more urgent, and the pursuit of fairness and justice is even stronger. As a strategic partner, China and Afghanistan should inherit and carry forward the spirit of Sino-Arab friendship, strengthen unity and cooperation, build a closer community of shared China and Afghanistan, better benefit the people of both sides, and promote the cause of human progress.

——We should adhere to independence and safeguard our common interests. China supports Arab countries to independently explore a development path that conforms to their national conditions, firmly holds its future and destiny in its own hands. It is willing to deepen strategic mutual trust with Afghanistan and firmly support each other to safeguard national sovereignty, territorial integrity and national dignity. The two sides should adhere to the principle of non-interference in internal affairs, practice true multilateralism, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of developing countries.

——We should focus on economic development and promote win-win cooperation. It is necessary to strengthen the docking of development strategies and jointly build the Belt and Road Initiative with high quality. Consolidate traditional cooperation such as economy and trade, energy and infrastructure construction, strengthen new growth poles such as green and low carbon, health care, investment and finance, explore new fields such as aerospace, digital economy and peaceful use of nuclear energy, and meet major challenges such as food security and energy security. China is willing to work with Afghanistan to implement global development initiatives and promote South-South cooperation to achieve sustainable development.

——We should maintain regional peace and achieve common security. China supports the use of Arab wisdom to promote political solutions to hot and difficult issues and build a common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security architecture in the Middle East. China calls on the international community to respect the ownership of the people of the Middle East and add positive energy to security and stability in the Middle East. China welcomes Afghanistan's participation in the Global Security Initiative and is willing to continue to contribute China's wisdom to promoting peace and tranquillity in the Middle East.

——We should strengthen civilized exchanges and enhance understanding and trust. It is necessary to expand personnel exchanges, deepen humanistic cooperation, and carry out the exchange of experience in governing the country. We should jointly oppose Islamophobia, carry out de-extremization cooperation, and oppose the association of terrorism with specific ethnic groups and religions. It is necessary to carry forward the common values of all mankind in peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy and freedom, and establish a model of civilization exchange and mutual learning in the new era.

President Xi Jinping pointed out that as the first step in building a community with a shared future between China and Afghanistan and implementing the Outline of the China-Arab Comprehensive Cooperation Plan, in the next three to five years, China is willing to work with Afghanistan to support development, food security, health, green innovation, energy security, civilized dialogue, youth talents, security and security and stability. Promote the "eight major joint actions" and strive for early harvest.

President Xi Jinping stressed that the question of Palestine is at stake in peace and stability in the Middle East. The historical injustices suffered by the Palestinian people cannot continue indefinitely, legitimate national rights cannot be traded, and the call for independent statehood cannot be rejected. The international community should firmly believe in the "two-state solution", adhere to the principle of "land for peace", resolutely commit to persuasion and promoting peace talks, and promote an early and just settlement of the Palestinian issue. China will continue to provide humanitarian assistance to Pakistan and support Pakistan in implementing livelihood construction projects.

President Xi Jinping concluded that the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clarified the task and path of promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation in an all-round way with Chinese modernization. China will adhere to maintaining world peace, promote common development, promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind, and provide new opportunities for all countries, including Arab countries, with China's new development. At this summit, China and Afghanistan agreed to make every effort to build a community of destiny between China and Afghanistan facing the new era, which is an epoch-making milestone in Sino-Arab relations. China is willing to take this as a new starting point, work with Afghanistan to carry forward the spirit of Sino-Arab friendship, open up broader prospects for Sino-Arab cooperation, and create a more brilliant tomorrow for Sino-Arab relations!

Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed, on behalf of King Salman of Saudi Arabia, welcomed world leaders to the first Arab-China summit and congratulated the summit on its success.

The leaders of the participating Arab side actively echoed President Xi Jinping's important speech and the "Eight Joint Actions" proposed. They said that the friendly relations between Arab countries and China are based on mutual respect, equal cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win results. Albania attaches great importance to China's great development achievements and the important role it has played internationally. It highly appreciates China's Belt and Road Initiative, the Global Development Initiative and the Global Security Initiative. It highly recognizes China's important proposals to promote a political solution to regional hot issues, and always supports the legitimacy of the Palestinian people. Rights and interests, uphold justice and justice internationally. At present, the world is facing the danger of divisive confrontation, and unilateralism and hegemonism still exist. Deepening the strategic partnership between Afghanistan and China is conducive to better achieving fairness and justice and maintaining world peace and prosperity. At this time, the Arab-China summit was held at the right time, reflecting the high level of Arab-China relations and the continuation and development of the Arab-China Cooperation Forum. Through this summit, Albania hopes to further consolidate the friendship and mutual trust between Afghanistan and China, comprehensively plan and strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields, build a community of Arab-China destiny facing the new era, elevate the Arab-China strategic partnership to a new and higher level, better serve the common interests of Afghanistan and China, and realize the common demands of the Arab-China people. I believe in this peak It will definitely become an important milestone in the history of Arab-Chinese relations. Albania adheres to independence, firmly adheres to the one-China principle, and is willing to continue to give firm support to China on issues involving China's core interests and oppose any hostile act against China. Afangxi and China have implemented the results of this summit, promoted the "Eight Joint Actions", continued to jointly build the Belt and Road Initiative, strengthened communication and coordination on international and regional affairs, cooperated to address common challenges such as climate change, food security and energy security, strengthened cultural exchanges, promoted dialogue among civilizations, and promoted peace and common prosperity for all mankind. Make positive contributions to development.

The summit issued the Outline of the Comprehensive Cooperation Plan between the People's Republic of China and the Arab States and the Document on Deepening the China-Arab Strategic Partnership for Peace and Development.

Relevant Chinese departments have also signed and reached a number of cooperation documents with the Arab side, as well as the secretariat of the Arab League and the institutions of the GCC.

Ding Xuexiang, Wang Yi, He Lifeng and others attended the meeting.