Xi's special envoy meets with RoK president on ties, peninsula issue

2/27/2018 - 3:46:13 PM

Chinese President Xi Jinping's special envoy Liu Yandong met in Seoul on February 26 with the Republic of Korea (RoK) President Moon Jae-in, urging efforts to boost ties consistent with the original intention of both sides in establishing diplomatic relations.

Chinese President Xi Jinping's special envoy Liu Yandong (L) meets with the Republic of Korea (RoK) President Moon Jae-in in Seoul, RoK, on Feb. 26, 2018. (Photo:Xinhua)

China and RoK should take the 10th anniversary of the establishment of their strategic cooperative partnership as an opportunity to earnestly implement the consensus reached by and between the heads of state of the two countries, Liu said.

Liu met with Moon after attending the February 25 closing ceremony of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. She noted that the attendance to the February 9 opening ceremony by Xi's special envoy Han Zheng, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, and her presence at the closing ceremony well reflect China's support for the PyeongChang games and the importance China attaches to its relations with the RoK.

During the meeting with Moon, Liu said China and the RoK should keep boosting mutual trust, launch mutually beneficial cooperation, strengthen exchange in education, science and technology, culture, sports, public health and other fields of humanities, and properly handle sensitive issues, in order to consolidate the political basis and the basis of public opinions for long-term stable development of relations between the two countries.

On the Korean Peninsula issue, Liu recalled that the RoK and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) took the PyeongChang Olympics as an opportunity to restart dialogue and interaction, revealing the common aspiration for peace of the people on the Korean Peninsula.

China is dedicated to peaceful solution of the Korean Peninsula issue through dialogue and consultation, Liu said.

Liu expressed the hope that the RoK side will enhance confidence, eliminate interferences, keep promoting continued improvement of relations between two Koreas, and keep the current momentum of detente, in striving to make progress in peace talks.

China will continue to play a positive and constructive role on the issue, she added.

For his part, Moon thanked China for its special arrangement and great support for the successful holding of the PyeongChang Olympics and wished the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics a success.

Moon said that the RoK side wishes to strengthen exchange and cooperation between the two countries in all fields, and expects China to continue extending support and cooperation in terms of promoting the south-north dialogue on the Korean Peninsula and the DPRK-U.S. dialogue.

Source: NDO

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