{"id":3989,"date":"2019-06-14T22:36:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T22:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2019-06-14T22:36:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T22:36:16","slug":"pakistan-china-to-enhance-coordination-to-build-community-of-shared-destiny-in-new-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-china-to-enhance-coordination-to-build-community-of-shared-destiny-in-new-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan China to Enhance Coordination to Build Community of Shared Destiny in New Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3990\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3990\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/imran-china.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/imran-china.jpg 700w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/imran-china-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/imran-china-696x548.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/imran-china-534x420.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Imran Khan shaking hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the meeting on the sidelines of 19th Meeting of the Council of the Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) at Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic on June 14, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bishkek; Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday 14 June 2019 met President of China Xi Jinping wherein both the countries reaffirmed their all weather strategic cooperative partnership.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The meeting took place in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital, on the sidelines of the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a PM Office statement said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 During the &#8220;extremely cordial meeting,&#8221; the two leaders discussed the entire gamut of bilateral relations between &#8220;iron brothers&#8221; China and Pakistan including China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The prime minister said that CPEC remained the highest priority of the government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He thanked China for its steadfast support on all issues of Pakistan\u2019s core interest and expressed satisfaction at the close coordination between the two sides on multilateral issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The prime minister reiterated Pakistan\u2019s firm support to China on all issues of its core interest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 President Xi Jinping acknowledged Pakistan\u2019s efforts to counter terrorism and promote regional stability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The two leaders discussed the regional situation and agreed to enhance coordination to build Pakistan China Community of Shared Destiny in the new era.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Both sides agreed that the visit of Vice President Wang Qishan had been a milestone. They expressed satisfaction that Pakistan and China had identical views on various international and regional issues.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0 The two leadership agreed to closely coordinate on challenges emerging from the changing global dynamics and affirmed that the time-tested Pakistan-China relationship would continue to move from strength to strength.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The prime minister is attending the summit, at the invitation of Kyrgyz President Sooronbay Jeenbekov, who would chair the meeting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Besides Pakistan, SCO members comprise China, Russia, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The SCO Observers include Afghanistan, Iran, Belarus and Mongolia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chinese President Xi Jinping Friday pointed out that his three meetings with Prime Minister Imran Khan in the last eight months were fully reflective of the high level of China-Pakistan all-weather strategic partnership and both countries should carry out closer coordination and cooperation under the changing regional and international situation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Xi Jinping pointed out that in the past eight months, I met with the Prime Minister three times. This fully reflects the high level of China-Pakistan all-weather strategic partnership,&#8221; a statement said issued by Chinese foreign minister here after the meeting between President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Imran Khan on the sidelines of SCO summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chinese president also remarked that under the changing the international and regional situation, China and Pakistan should carry out closer coordination and cooperation to build a closer community of shared destiny.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Xi Jinping emphasized that both the countries must maintain, consolidate and develop China-Pakistan all-weather relations and all-round cooperation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chinese president maintained that the two sides should thoroughly communicate on issues of common concern and jointly safeguard international and regional security and stability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We must expand and enrich the construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) with new focus on industrial parks, agriculture and people&#8217;s livelihood,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Xi Jinping said it was necessary to seize the opportunity of the escalation of the China-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement and vigorously expand bilateral trade. China was willing to provide assistance to Pakistan within its ability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chinese president said his country supported Pakistan in carrying out the national anti-terrorism action plan and would help Pakistan strengthen its counter-terrorism capacity building, adding, &#8220;China supports Pakistan and India to improve relations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the meeting, Prime Minister Imran Khan said China was an all-weather strategic partner of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Pakistani side thanked the Chinese side for its valuable support and assistance for a long time. It highly valued China&#8217;s positive role in promoting international and regional peace and security and was committed to continuously deepening its strategic relationship with China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Pakistani side would firmly promote the construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and would take effective measures to provide security.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ding Xuexiang, Yang Jiechi, He Lifeng, attended the meeting, the statement concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishkek; Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday 14 June 2019 met President of China Xi Jinping wherein both the countries reaffirmed their all weather strategic cooperative partnership. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The meeting took place in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital, on the sidelines of the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3991,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions\/3991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}