DAKAR – State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Mozambican Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Verónica Macamo pledged to strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries during a meeting in Dakar on Sunday.
The meeting was held ahead of the Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), which was held on Monday and Tuesday.
Mozambique is an important partner of China in Africa. In recent years, political mutual trust between the two countries has continued to deepen, and bilateral cooperation in various fields has achieved fruitful results, Wang said, adding that the Chinese and Mozambican people have looked out for each other and joined hands to fight against COVID-19, further enhancing the traditional friendship between the two sides.
China attaches great importance to the development of China-Mozambique relations, and stands ready, under the guidance of the important consensus reached by the two heads of state and taking the meeting as an opportunity, to promote the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between the two countries to achieve greater development, Wang said.
He also said that thanks to the joint efforts of the two sides, bilateral economic and trade cooperation has continued to grow despite the impact of the pandemic.
Wang stressed that China is ready to strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation with Mozambique in such areas as infrastructure, agriculture and energy under the frameworks of the joint construction of the Belt and Road (B&R), FOCAC and the Economic and Trade Forum between China and Portuguese-speaking countries to help Mozambique achieve faster development.
Macamo warmly congratulated the Communist Party of China (CPC) on the centenary of its founding, noting that her country stands ready to strengthen party-to-party ties and exchanges on state governance with China.
She said that Mozambique and China enjoy a profound traditional friendship, and the two countries have always stood firmly together, adding that the Mozambican people are deeply grateful to China for helping Mozambique achieve independence, and that China’s support made Mozambique highly confident in its future development.
Macamo stressed that Mozambique firmly adheres to the one-China policy and resolutely supports China to safeguard its core interests. She noted that Mozambique stands ready to strengthen strategic mutual trust, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, and maintain solidarity and coordination on international affairs with China. – Xinhua
State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (right) poses with Mozambican Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Verónica Macamo, ahead of the 8th Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), in Dakar, capital of Senegal, on Sunday. FOCAC ended on Tuesday. – Xinhua
