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enhance mutually beneficial cooperation with our neighbors under the
principles of amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness. We will
pursue common development with African countries on the basis of
sincerity, real results, affinity, and good faith. Further, we will elevate our
comprehensive cooperative partnership with Latin America to higher
levels.
Fourth, China remains unchanged in its commitment to
multilateralism. Multilateralism is an effective way to preserve peace
and promote development. For decades, the United Nations and other
international institutions have made a universally recognized contribution
to maintaining global peace and sustaining development.
China is a founding member of the United Nations and the first
state to sign the UN Charter. We will firmly uphold the international
system of which the UN is the core, the basic norms governing
international relations of which the purposes and principles of the UN
Charter are the cornerstone, and the authority and position of the UN
and its core role in international affairs.
The China-UN Peace and Development Fund has been officially
inaugurated. Through this, China will give priority to making funds
available to peace and development initiatives proposed by the UN and
its agencies in Geneva. China’s support for multilateralism will only
increase as it continues to develop.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Friends,
Geneva invokes a special memory for us. In 1954, Premier Zhou
Enlai led a Chinese delegation to the Geneva Conference, and worked
with the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, and
France to find a political solution to the Korean issue and negotiate a
ceasefire in Indo-China. This demonstrated China’s desire for peace and
saw it contributing its wisdom to world peace. Since 1971 when China
regained its lawful seat at the UN and began to return to international
agencies in Geneva, China has gradually involved itself in disarmament,
trade, development, human rights, and social issues, putting forward
Chinese proposals for the resolution of major issues and the making
of important rules. In recent years, China has taken an active part in

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