Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his counterparts from member countries of the Rio Group held their 17th political dialogue meeting Wednesday.
China's relations with Latin America have witnessed rapid development as the world enters the new century, Yang said, citing frequent exchanges of high-level visits, deepened political mutual trust, ever expanding economic and trade cooperation, major headway in exchanges and collaboration in various fields such as science and technology, culture and education, and tourism, and close coordination and cooperation in international affairs.
Strengthening mutually beneficial friendly cooperation between China and Latin America, which share broad interests in major issues of peace and development, is conducive to each other's economic and social development and to the development of South-South cooperation and multilateralism, Yang said at the meeting, which was held on the sidelines of the 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Rio Group foreign ministers, for their part, said close relations between Latin America and China, which was based on economic and trade cooperation, are extremely important and there is great potential in the cooperation between the two sides.
They expressed the hope that the two sides, which share common interests in promoting multilateralism, would work together to strengthen cooperation to facilitate world peace and development.
Source: Xinhua
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